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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - With school attendance being a national issue, a local truancy program is getting a boost of funds to help find the root cause of absenteeism. The Helping Families Initiative was ...

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 ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new $7 million program was unveiled on Monday to help combat truancy in local schools. Truancy is when a student is chronically absent or tardy from classes. Both developers of this ...

Local law enforcement seeking to keep children in school will be getting a boost next year with a funding increase for a key truancy program that looks at the root causes of kids missing school. While ...

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.

Jun. 24—With the passing of the Chronic Absenteeism/Truancy Bill through the Iowa Legislature, Clinton County Attorney Mike Wolf said at a Monday meeting of the County Board of Supervisors that ...

In an attempt to save money, the New York Department of Education canceled a program geared to get truant students back to class, according to the Daily News. Started in 1998 in Brooklyn, the Truancy ...

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 ...