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 ...

Robinson & Cole senior associate Alaine C. Doolan was inducted into the Connecticut Corporate Mentoring Hall of Fame for her work with the Truancy Project of Connecticut, an initiative in which ...

Surveys suggest numerous reasons students are habitually truant from school, including lack of interest, bullying or safety, and family challenges. Taking a proactive approach, locally and statewide, ...

At the beginning of last year, one of my brightest students, Marcus, a junior, started missing school. It was gradual at first — one or two days here and there — but it soon became clear that he was ...

Schools only have so many tools and intervention techniques at their disposal to mitigate a student’s truancy issues, and some districts have more resources than others. When a student continues to be ...

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. The same day the Tehama County district ...

Hall County Deputy Attorney Michelle Oldham will be spending 18 hours a week this coming school year working with school district officials to cut down on student absenteeism. The Grand Island school ...

DECATUR - A second-grader at Harris School was missing every day of school after his family moved to a new neighborhood over Christmas break. Letters from the school produced no response. But a notice ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – South Dakota’s success rate for keeping truancy cases out of court is the lowest it ...

ELMORE, Ala. (WSFA) - Making sure kids make it to class is a priority for all school systems. Last year, a District Judge launched an effort to improve student attendance in Elmore County and ...

EdSource · How a small rural school district is setting an example for school counseling statewide In 2011, when criminal penalties were first tied to truancy, five parents in Orange County were ...