SAN ANTONIO — Over the last five years, lawmakers in Texas have been grappling with the issues of dropout rates and truancy. What's changed is the long held reliance on justice of the peace and ...

South Dakota’s success rate for keeping truancy cases out of court is the lowest it’s been in a decade, according to an annual report presented to a state committee. The Juvenile Justice Reinvestment ...

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 ...

The judge denies an allegation by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct that he raised his voice and spoke in an agitated and aggressive manner while hearing truancy cases and directly inquired ...

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A Pennsylvania mother of seven died in a jail cell where she was serving a two-day sentence for her children’s absence from school, drawing complaints from the judge that sent her there about a broken ...

GRAND FORKS – Changes in state law placing the responsibility of student attendance solely on schools make it difficult, if not impossible, to charge students with truancy, according to some Grand ...

D.C. Council member Zachary Parker has introduced legislation to address chronic absenteeism and truancy in the District, driven by concerns over rising youth crime and declining academic outcomes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A judicial panel on Wednesday heard the case of a judge booted off the bench for erupting at students and their parents during ...

Sparked by a backlog of truancy cases in Fort Bend County, a proposed state law to create centralized truancy courts in certain counties has cleared the House of the 82nd Texas Legislature. House Bill ...