State law already requires districts to monitor truancy and to intervene when students accumulate too many unexcused absences ...

When Michael was in kindergarten, he missed more than 80 days of school. He was not ill and no one from Michael's family ever called to say why he was not attending school. When I was elected district ...

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A parent is jailed for their child's truancy once a fortnight every school term in England and Wales, analysis of court statistics shows. The first high-profile jailing of a truant's parent, Patricia ...

Lauren Keating, a guardian ad litem, lists reasons why a student may be truant at a conference last week hosted by the Department of Children and Families. Photo by Amy Ash Nixon/VTDigger There are ...

Atlanta parents face a $1,000 fine and up to 60 days in jail when their students skip school under a 2009 ordinance city officials say they now plan to enforce. It stands out as one of the toughest ...

Gov. Tom Wolf signed a truancy overhaul package earlier this month that will increase the maximum court fines from $300 to $750 for parents or truants age 15 and older. Jail time is still a ...

Truancy rates in the UK have not decreased since 1997, according to the National Audit Office, despite government spending of £885m on the problem. Truancy is a growing problem in the US, says Dr Ken ...

Young people who regularly eat their main meal with their parents are much less likely to be truants, says an analysis from the OECD. The study warns of the serious impact on test results of missing ...

It is time for the rest of Maryland to join the ranks of Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties through a “Truancy Reduction Pilot Program – Expansion,” which Senate Bill 865, currently ...

A CRACKDOWN on truancy that could see parents prosecuted and fined up to $5000 has been slammed by education experts. Both the state opposition and government in South Australia have announced plans ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP)-- 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 ...