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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many educators say that a child's success or failure in school is an accurate predictor of success or failure in life. That's why New Haven Probate Court Judge John Keyes and other state officials are ...

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 ...

A D.C. Department of Human Services pilot program has reduced truancy among participating students by 71% in its second year, according to a new mid-year report. The initiative uses early intervention ...

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, ...

Luzerne County Manager Robert Lawton said he’s encouraging managers to think outside the box and come up with programs to address county problems, such as truancy, but the challenge will be ...