Author Susie Winfield, a former truancy liaison who managed attendance across 32 schools, outlines intervention and incentive ...

HOUSTON, Texas – The Texas Education Agency is reviewing truancy data submitted by school districts over the last four years. The review was prompted by questions from the KPRC 2 Investigates team ...

A Pennsylvania senator is urging her colleagues to combat a statewide school truancy problem that she calls an “educational crisis.” Across the commonwealth, school attendance rates dropped from 85% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a coalition of civil rights and disability rights groups made a complaint to the Texas Education Agency that Corpus Christi ...

HOUSTON – Truancy can be an indication of deeper problems in a child’s life. This is why the Texas Education Code requires school districts to use truancy prevention measures to try to keep kids in ...

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 the article headlined “Attacking Absenteeism” published June 28, there were suggestions for improving student attendance, and for good reason. In recent years, as many as 40% of public students are ...

Educators have condemned plans to scrap more than 100 truancy specialists and replace them with a “specialist workforce” ...

After a coalition of civil rights and disability rights groups made a complaint to the Texas Education Agency that Corpus Christi ISD's truancy practices discriminate against students with ...