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Indiana

(34 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2012, 03:42 PM Mar 2012

No driver's license if you drop out of school

http://www2.scnow.com/news/pee-dee/2012/feb/29/bill-deny-drivers-licenses-dropouts-advances-ar-3324173/

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No driver's license if you drop out of school (Original Post) Indiana Mar 2012 OP

A similar law was passed in West Virginia in 1989. Staph Mar 2012 #1

Staph

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1. A similar law was passed in West Virginia in 1989.

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Thu Mar 1, 2012, 04:53 PM

Mar 2012

If you drop out of high school, you can't get a driver's license until you reach 18. There are exceptions for GEDs and for those who drop out to join the military.

According to an old article in the New York Times, the drop out rate dropped by one-third in the first year of the bill.

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