Churches, Groups Look to Faith As Answer for School Truancy

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Several faith-based organizations and churches are pushing to improve school attendance and reduce violence by getting more pastors and volunteers to lead Bible study clubs and to form prayer groups inside Milwaukee Public Schools and charter schools.

Their efforts which will include a stop-the-violence march and rally today are based on the belief that faith and values are critically important parts of any solution.

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Churches, Groups Look to Faith As Answer for School Truancy

"This rally is based on youth and on getting prayer back in the public school system, because what's shaping our youth is that they are doing things that are ungodly," said the Rev. George Nathaniel, pastor of Compassion Ministries International, ...

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