Author: Wendy Pruitt
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Volunteers like Josh Swiger don’t just show up. They stay in the fight for decades.
In the 35 years since Truancy Intervention Project (TIP) was founded, the effort to keep Georgia’s kids in school has been anything but a straight line. It’s hard to believe that, less than two decades ago, chronically absent students were being held in regional youth detention centers for truancy — a practice Georgia has since…