You can lead a horse to water...

Abandon all hope ye who enter here

...but you cannot make them drink it. Michigan's education bureaucracy is considering withholding badly needed funds from Detroit Public Schools because of their persistently high rate of truancy it has been reported. Threats and sanctions such as this are likely futile though; if there were anything the DPS could do about this chronic problem they would have done it already.

Ex-DPS superintendent gets flashed at meeting then gets paid $650 K to get over the trauma

Go figure? Most women who get flashed by an exhibitionist creep go home and barf and then maybe shop around for some pepper spray. Not if you're a DPS big-shot however. If that's the case then you sue DPS (i.e., the taxpayers) and get a gigantic settlement for your massive psychological damage. Go figure?