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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 D.C. Department of Human Services pilot program has reduced truancy among participating students by 71% in its second year, according to a new mid-year report. The initiative uses early intervention ...

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 ...