It's Friday morning in Department Three, Alameda County Superior Court. The Great Seal of the State of California hangs on the wood-paneled wall behind the judge's bench. A cart is filled with red ...

Well before the teen boys and their mentors arrived, Bernadine Williams was already settled in place, waiting for a glimpse of an intervention program she hoped would be her grandson’s salvation. She ...

School districts in Indiana are adjusting attendance policies to comply with a new state law that says parents could be prosecuted if their child misses too many school days. The truancy prevention ...

The Fort Bend ISD school board on Monday unanimously approved a $240,000 agreement with Fort Bend County to continue a joint truancy prevention program, despite no evidence of improvement. The program ...

Lawrence Public Schools district offices pictured in April 2021. The Lawrence school board at Monday’s meeting approved partnership agreements with outside agencies that are meant to bolster support ...

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 ...

Reading the news out of Texas lately—including a Department of Justice review of Dallas County truancy courts and public debate over changing legal penalties for skipping school—it would be easy to ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Students in Mesquite and El Paso schools were sent to truancy court ...

Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez discusses truancy prevention and intervention during a Lawrence school board meeting on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. The Lawrence school board spent a ...

LISBON — School officials said the decision to hire a local agency to help the district comply with the new state truancy law was money well spent. In August, the school board agreed to contract with ...

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