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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Truancy Abatement Program is, so far, a successful collaboration between the county's juvenile probation department and several county agencies and judges, according to Ron Leach, director of the ...

On a beautiful October morning, Sal Villa was driving along Central Avenue and found himself counting kids. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Albany city schools attendance (by percentage) ...

Well before the teen boys and their mentors arrived, Bernadine Williams was already settled in place, waiting for a glimpse of an intervention program she hoped would be her grandson’s salvation. She ...

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

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 ...

The BriefThe D.C. Council held a session on Tuesday to discuss the city's truancy crisis among students. While there was ...

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.

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 ...

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.