D.C. targets kids who skip class

The District began an initiative Thursday to clamp down on the 20 percent of District students who are “chronically truant,” skipping class at least 15 times each year.

An advertising campaign — dubbed “The More You Learn, The More You Earn” — features students from D.C. Public Schools’ Anacostia, Ballou and Cardozo senior high schools, as well as Paul Public Charter School, sharing how they stopped missing class and shored up failing grades.