September 10, 1998
Maryland Has Broadest Requirement for Community Service by Students
When nearly 43,000 public high-school students in Maryland were awarded diplomas last year, they had racked up some three million hours of community service.
Maryland is the only state in the union that bars public high-school students from graduating unless they fulfill a service requirement. Students in the state must spend at least 75 hours volunteering, or working on projects that tie community service to their academic studies.
The 1997 graduating
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