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Top Stories: Dallas ISD Unveils New Truancy Rules; Fighting Tuberculosis

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The top local stories this morning from KERA News:

A U.S. Justice Department investigation resulted in Texas throwing out its old truancy laws. Now, Dallas school and county leaders have unveiled truancy reforms aimed at keeping more kids in class.

Other stories this morning:

  • According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis now kills more people worldwide than HIV or AIDS. A Baylor researcher has helped develop anew method to treat children with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.