In Depth: Dropout Bill Faces Uncertainty In Special Session

By Tony McVeigh

Published March 22, 2011 at 9:45 PM EDT

When Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear called a special session on Medicaid last week, he also asked lawmakers to raise the state’s dropout age. Medicaid appears to be moving, but the compulsory attendance bill has hit a stone wall.

http://archive.wfpl.org/20110322StoneWall.mp3

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