Mariana Perez missed school more often last year than she does now. The eighth-grader in Maryland is part of a longtime Montgomery County program to help middle school students improve attendance and ...

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 ...

Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education. However, the American public education attendance policy, specifically Fayette County’s, creates disparate policies for neurodivergent and struggling ...

Of the 33 students deemed "continuing truant" in Rochester's Willow Creek Middle School, 63.6 percent ended up changing their class-skipping habits and avoided a court petition last year. Mayo High ...

A Ravenna landmark might become the site for a program designed to keep youth from entering the juvenile detention system. Judge Patricia Smith, judge in Portage County Probate Court and Juvenile ...

When 12-year-old Israel Makeda’s absences from Montgomery Village Middle School started piling up, school staff and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Truancy Prevention Program got the 7th ...

The future of the Truancy Intervention Program - what some say is one of the best tools the juvenile system has in place to help keep kids in school - may be in jeopardy. The program's operating ...

Record numbers of Oxnard students who ditched class during the last school year got caught, thanks to a new truancy program being touted as a model for cities in Ventura County. Developed by Oxnard ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — If your child is not in school, somebody is going to be knocking on your door. That’s basically the message the Caddo district attorney’s and Shreveport city marshal’s offices ...

On Thursday, Caddo Commissioners voted to spend $60,000 for a parish truancy program that Juvenile Services and the Volunteers for Youth Justice will run. Caddo Juvenile Services Director Clay Walker ...

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 Fayette County, truancy needs to be treated at deeper levels, rather than just as a punishment. Jose Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee Staff Photo Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education.