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, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - With school attendance being a national issue, a local truancy program is getting a boost of funds to help find the root cause of absenteeism. The Helping Families Initiative was ...

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 ...

grades six through eight, since 1999. School officials credited the program with increasing attendance rates from about 85 percent to an average of 95 to 96 percent during the past five years.

Heidi Sipe is the superintendent of the Umatilla School District. She joins us with more details. Note: The following transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: From ...

MORGAN CO., Ala. (WAFF) - The Morgan County district attorney says he wants to expand the truancy program started by Decatur City Schools into the county. The Helping Families Initiative, or simply ...

In an attempt to save money, the New York Department of Education canceled a program geared to get truant students back to class, according to the Daily News. Started in 1998 in Brooklyn, the Truancy ...

Local law enforcement seeking to keep children in school will be getting a boost next year with a funding increase for a key truancy program that looks at the root causes of kids missing school. While ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new $7 million program was unveiled on Monday to help combat truancy in local schools. Truancy is when a student is chronically absent or tardy from classes. Both developers of this ...

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 ...