Nearly four years after COVID-19 first shuttered schools, students are still missing class at rates unprecedented in the past two decades.
In an effort to reverse that trend, Patrick Tutwiler, the state’s education secretary, will make his television debut this week to deliver the message that “school is where kids belong.”
Tutwiler’s public service announcement is one part of a multilingual campaign by the state’s K-12 education department, including billboards and ads on radio and public transit.
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