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The Coming D.C. Crime Boomerang | The Atlantic

September 18, 2025
  • D.C. Policy Center

On September 15, 2025, Senior Education Policy Researcher Hannah Mason was quoted in The Atlantic:

So far, the city says that attendance appears stable. But “everyone is on the lookout” for how the federal presence might affect student absences, Hannah Mason, an education researcher at the D.C. Policy Center, told me—although she emphasized that absenteeism is complex and isn’t caused by any single factor.

Read More: The Coming D.C. Crime Boomerang
Additional reading: D.C. Voices: Juvenile Justice

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