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CPS Students Show Up In Record Numbers

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Sep 16, 2009 3:40PM

The Chicago Public School system announced that this year's first-day attendance at its school was a new record at 94.1 percent attendance, topping last year's record of 93.7 percent. Maybe inspiring children with the guy who sings a song called "Birthday Sex" wasn't such a bad idea?

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