DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - After public backlash, Dothan City Schools (DCS) is clarifying its truancy policy. This stems from a ...

DCS said its administrators are working with the Houston County District Attorney’s Office. So far this year, roughly 24% of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Persily said they have been working with the Department of Education who has been working diligently on truancy prevention programs for children instead of housing them for truancy purposes ...

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 ...