Activities of this new project will be mainly based on the reengagement of out-of-school children through fighting high rates of retained students and enhance classattendance.
Attendance in Lynda Nero's class has improved dramatically this year, she said, after the mascot program helped parents realize her prekindergarten classroom isn't simply the day-care program they may have envisioned.
No matter how you look at it, a strong induction class in 2013 could only help bolster sagging attendance figures and provide the Hall of Fame with additional opportunities for revenue growth and economic stimulation throughout the tiny upstate New York village on Otsego Lake.
Aided by a description and a check of school attendance records to determine who was not in class Thursday, officers searched for the young suspects and took them into custody, police said.