The pandemic created an education crisis in America, with more than 25% of students nationwide chronically absent, missing 10% or more of classes, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The ...
Changes in state law placing the responsibility of student attendance solely on schools make it difficult, if not impossible, ...
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 ...
Appleton school board member Alvin Dupree says the school district's truancy court is permanently shut down after the chief judge of the 8th Judicial District, which includes Outagamie County, ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CN) - Rhode Island uses its Truancy Court to discipline and punish students with learning and medical disabilities and other problems, rather than to help them, nine families say in ...
Public school classes started only two weeks ago and already Bexar County Justice of the Peace Monica Caballero is anticipating the grueling truancy dockets that will start rolling through her court ...
The Maryland legislature is considering a bill that would expand a pilot truancy program on the Eastern Shore to Prince George?s and Harford counties. Harford County State?s Attorney Joseph Cassilly ...
The court is a newborn among methods of tackling truancy. Blue Earth County’s truancy court is the first of the kind in the state. And although it would be premature to label the court a success, at ...
Skipping school could prompt Judge Norbert Smith to ground you for the weekend — or, if he and his team see improvement — it might get you a gift certificate to McDonald’s. It’s part of a nine-day-old ...