The state defines “chronic absenteeism” as students absent 15 or more days per school year. This announcement comes only one ...

A truancy problem-solving court is beginning a pilot program in County’s circuit court and will hear its first case on Wednesday. The truancy court, which is not punitive, looks to provide students ...

Truancy is a serious concern in the United States. Its negative effects are so pervasive that in 2003 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention named truancy prevention a national ...

County Board of Education is considering changing student vacation absences from excused to unexcused. Frederick County Public Schools allow students a maximum of five vacation days during the school ...

Figures show that Dothan City Schools has a higher than average amount of children chronically absent, a problem the school ...

The DoHS said the West Virginia Children’s Home in Elkins is scheduled to officially close down tomorrow, Tuesday, December ...

If they go unexcused, a student could quickly end up being labeled as truant. Both chronic absenteeism and chronic truancy include various levels of intervention from schools. Schools ar supposed to ...

Talarico, a former public school teacher, said budget cuts have limited districts’ truancy prevention efforts. “This reporting features some of the incredible work being done by Texans to ...

Truancy courts were created where the penalties could be deferred ... There is a pretty broad standing consensus that you want to invest in prevention first and you use a legal system as a last resort ...