The Truancy Abatement Program is, so far, a successful collaboration between the county's juvenile probation department and several county agencies and judges, according to Ron Leach, director of the ...

Of the 33 students deemed "continuing truant" in Rochester's Willow Creek Middle School, 63.6 percent ended up changing their class-skipping habits and avoided a court petition last year. Mayo High ...

Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education. However, the American public education attendance policy, specifically Fayette County’s, creates disparate policies for neurodivergent and struggling ...

A Ravenna landmark might become the site for a program designed to keep youth from entering the juvenile detention system. Judge Patricia Smith, judge in Portage County Probate Court and Juvenile ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Linn County truancy program succeeded in getting 77 truant students back to school on a regular basis. The other goal of the Truancy Deferred Prosecution Program, started in 2019, was ...

When 12-year-old Israel Makeda’s absences from Montgomery Village Middle School started piling up, school staff and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Truancy Prevention Program got the 7th ...

CHAMPAIGN – A districtwide program to keep potential truants in school is working, say officials who will report the results at Monday's Champaign school board meeting. Board members also will take a ...

AUSTIN - A legislative fight over whether to decriminalize truancy has drawn in an unlikely player: the Texas National Guard. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of students who ran afoul of the state's truancy ...

Record numbers of Oxnard students who ditched class during the last school year got caught, thanks to a new truancy program being touted as a model for cities in Ventura County. Developed by Oxnard ...