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Brooklyn DA calls on education officials to strengthen truancy policy

The Brooklyn District Attorney is calling for a change in the truancy policy at city schools in the wake of the beating death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown. Charles Hynes plans to ask the Department of

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