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, ...

The District’s Truancy Reduction Pilot Program is working, leading to stronger family engagement and better attendance.

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 ...

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 ...

A troubling trend continues to grip schools across the nation’s capital: nearly half of all students are missing significant ...

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, ...

ELMORE, Ala. (WSFA) - Making sure kids make it to class is a priority for all school systems. Last year, a District Judge launched an effort to improve student attendance in Elmore County and ...

Truancy by Mobile County Public School students fell by 50% over the last year, according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office. Local officials said the reinstatement of a longtime support ...

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 ...