The eldest daughter of the woman jailed for her children's truancy insisted last night: 'There must be another way of teaching kids a lesson without locking their mother up.' Kerry Cowman ...

The Pontiac woman accused of abandoning her three children ... children didn’t attend school since being abandoned, but the truancy wasn’t addressed. Bouchard said legislative changes are ...

In Marion County, this heightened focus on getting kids to school has led to countless dinner table conversations and an uptick in the number of truancy cases being referred to the county ...