The pandemic created an education crisis in America, with more than 25% of students nationwide chronically absent, missing 10% or more of classes, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District released data showing how often it referred kids to truancy court this school year, revealing a significant decline from the previous year.
Truancy court is now in session in the Scott City School District, and it's making a big difference in curbing student absenteeism and bolstering academic performance, school administrators say. After ...
Schools only have so many tools and intervention techniques at their disposal to mitigate a student’s truancy issues, and some districts have more resources than others. When a student continues to be ...
Appleton school board member Alvin Dupree says the school district's truancy court is permanently shut down after the chief judge of the 8th Judicial District, which includes Outagamie County, ...
Last fall, Jeremy Bowen, a 14-year-old student receiving special educational services at Westerly High School in Westerly, Rhode Island, took the courageous step of integrating into mainstream classes ...
Shortly before he was fired, Superintendent Earnest Winston told a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board member he couldn’t take truancy cases to court because of a pandemic backlog. District Attorney ...
APPLETON - The Appleton Area School District's truancy court and its lead judge are facing public scrutiny following a school board member's decision to speak openly about his concerns with the ...
APPLETON - Outagamie County Judge Mark McGinnis will not address truancy court at a Tuesday meeting in his courtroom, he said in an email to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. The meeting at noon in Branch ...
Only two states in the U.S. — Texas and Wyoming — send truants to adult criminal court. In 2013, Texas prosecuted about 115,000 cases, more than twice the number of truancy cases filed in juvenile ...
Under a new program, Brevard County parents whose students have missed too many days of school could find themselves in court. Judge Christina Serrano said the program is the first of its kind in ...