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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tensions were high between Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday after they couldn’t come to an agreement on whether to ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. stats show that students are attending school more frequently. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that there was a 71% reduction in truancy. Bowser said that this was the ...

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 ...

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 ...