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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RE-1 Valley School District is seeing success with its truancy program. Cindy Reyes, district family community advocate, and Elizabeth Mauler, student services director, gave an update on the program, ...

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 ...

Money is running dry for a successful truancy-fighting program in Montgomery County, leaving lawmakers and school officials scouring for other funding and ways to keep kids in school. The Truancy ...

Several Camden stakeholders are joining forces to address an emergent issue from the pandemic – skyrocketing truancy, especially in urban areas. The Camden County Board of Commissioners is ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study shows that nearly four out of five District of Columbia families who participated in voluntary truancy-prevention programs saw an increase in school attendance for their ...