Despite vows to boost attendance and more than $17 million being poured into anti-truancy programs, absence rates in D.C. Public Schools worsened last year while the city’s charter schools showed ...

Aug. 16—After beginning an initiative to curb truancy in Decatur City Schools last school year, the Morgan County District Attorney's Office wants to introduce the same program to Morgan County ...

Efforts to improve school attendance in Bexar County are paying off, but fighting truancy remains a multimillion-dollar effort. In addition to school district-funded attendance personnel on each ...

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The D.C. Council held a marathon hearing Tuesday to confront the city’s growing absenteeism crisis, with lawmakers and ...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on October 1st, 2025 that removes jail times and fines for parents if their children are found to be missing too much school.

That's fewer by five absences than Nebraska truancy law allows, and his parents said Alex had been sick. But in Grand Island, grade-school kids and families who appear to be entering patterns of ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Members of the Appleton community gathered inside the Appleton Public Library to share their thoughts and opinions on what the Appleton School District proposed in a meeting ...

Young people involved in George Junior Republic in Indiana on a fossil hiking trip. The organization, which offers programs ...

In the first prosecution under a new truancy program, a judge Wednesday placed a 17-year-old girl on probation after she admitted repeatedly skipping school. Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert ...