Law Upheld Banning Dropouts From Driving
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A circuit judge Friday upheld a state law that requires teen-agers to stay in school or lose their driver’s licenses.
The suit filed by Michael Means, 17, of Charleston was the first court test of the 1988 law, which is now being studied by a number of other states and Congress as a way to fight the dropout problem.
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