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This Heart of the School episode, features host Suzanne Goodin in conversation with Judge Baxley, one of the district judges for Elmore County, and Shay Jackson, the director of administrative services. The podcast was created to inform the community about the people who work in and around the schools, and for students to learn about the school system's offerings. The conversation focuses on truancy and efforts in Elmore County to improve student attendance.

Judge Baxley noted that people caught in a cycle of committing crimes and serving prison time often lack an education, having found themselves in a life of poverty from which they could not escape without schooling. He observed that this lack of education was ...