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 ...

Our latest episode of Code Switch, we took a look at vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris's record as a prosecutor, and how she used her power as San Francisco's district attorney and later, as ...

Southeast Texas has contributed to a substantial increase in the number of state criminal truancy cases, and Texas has the highest number of cases in the country. According to Port Arthur Deputy ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — Thank you for voting on wsoctv.com. Do You Think The CMS Truancy Program Is A Good Idea? Do you the CMS' truancy program is a good idea? Yes No I don't know Police in Charlotte ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

AUSTIN - A legislative fight over whether to decriminalize truancy has drawn in an unlikely player: the Texas National Guard. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of students who ran afoul of the state's truancy ...

Last year a student kept missing school to baby-sit a sibling because the child's mother had to work and couldn't afford day care. Another student didn't see the need to go to school when the child's ...

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 ...

percent to 96 percent since its inception in September 1999. The average daily attendance rate in schools statewide is 80 percent to 90 percent, he said. But the state has not been able to provide ...