More than 86,000 Texas teens have been sent to court for missing school since lawmakers’ 2015 reforms made truancy a civil matter, rather than criminal. A KXAN investigation found cases are ...

OCALA, Fla. ( WFLA) — Two Florida parents were recently jailed for not ensuring their children were attending school.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District released data showing how often it referred kids to truancy court this school year, revealing a significant decline from the previous year.

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 ...

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 ...

A new $7 million program was unveiled on Monday to help combat truancy in local schools. Truancy is when a student is chronically absent or tardy from classes. Both developers of this program and ...

(The Center Square) − The Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is tackling two critical issues facing the state’s education system: Teacher shortages and high truancy rates.

KALAMAZOO, MI — Working days for Jermaine Jackson — truancy officer at Kalamazoo Public Schools — aren’t spent behind a desk. Sometimes he may get an early morning call, “Mr. Jermaine ...