Just before winter break, Pasco County schools superintendent John Legg announced his intent to get tougher with the students ...

Assistant Superintendent Robert Dangler highlighted changes to two significant but separate policies — weapons and truancy — ...

Truancy is a significant issue across Central Florida, where six counties—Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola and ...

Last week the governing panel of Idaho’s Republican Party met at Meridian’s Harvest Church and debated the future of Idaho.

For the 2021-2022 school year, there were 14.7 million students truant in US. The pandemic created an education crisis in America, with more than 25% of students nationwide chronically absent, missing ...

State law already requires districts to monitor truancy and to intervene when students accumulate too many unexcused absences ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Truancy is an issue school districts across the country are dealing with. Truancy is when a student miss too many days of school. In Tennessee, a student is considered truant if they ...

Feb. 28 -- It's 6:30 a.m. and Jacksonville, Fla., police are on a citywide truancy roundup. But they are not going after students. They are arresting parents who fail to keep their children in school.

Schools only have so many tools and intervention techniques at their disposal to mitigate a student’s truancy issues, and some districts have more resources than others. When a student continues to be ...

Changes in state law placing the responsibility of student attendance solely on schools make it difficult, if not impossible, ...

Melissa Keller has been a truancy officer in Lafayette Parish schools for nearly 20 years. Lately, she's been busier than ever. Chronic absenteeism, or the share of students who miss at least 10% or ...

In Fayette County, truancy needs to be treated at deeper levels, rather than just as a punishment. Jose Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee Staff Photo Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education.