A truancy intervention program piloted at two Rochester district schools last year has proven so successful in persuading habitually truant students to attend school regularly that it will be expanded ...

Keeping kids in school can help them stay out of prison later, said Terry Walsh, who started TIP with Judge Glenda Hatchett to do just that. Helping truant kids stay in school can keep them out of ...

Truancy rates spiked after the Truancy Intervention and Parent Accountability Program was axed during budget cuts in 2008, so county and school district leaders are designing a new program that could ...

This chart from the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office shows that the number of truant students tapers off dramatically between the time the first letter a parent or guardian is sent to ...

MACON, Ga. — The Bibb County School District is adding another tool to its effort to keep students in the classroom. Alongside its existing Truancy Task Force, attendance coordinator and school-based ...

SAN ANTONIO — Over the last five years, lawmakers in Texas have been grappling with the issues of dropout rates and truancy. What's changed is the long held reliance on justice of the peace and ...

Douglas County commissioners met on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. Douglas County commissioners reviewed a proposed elementary and middle school truancy initiative set to launch as early as the 2026-2027 ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — While truancy is a problem in West Virginia, are Ohio schools faring any better? Those who face it head on say it has been an ongoing battle. "Our state average is about 90 ...

Most Northland children still were soaking up the final days of summer vacation as the calendar flipped to September on Thursday. But for a group of school administrators, public officials and ...

XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) – Students are heading back to school, and their absenteeism is now being tracked by hours rather than days. This is just one of the changes schools implemented the beginning of ...

DALLAS – A Texas law that's sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court for missing school — and even some to jail — is off the books, though a Justice Department investigation into one ...

Across California, truancy rates for students from low-income backgrounds were disproportionately higher than for their more affluent peers during the 2013-14 school year, according to a report ...