AUSTIN (KXAN) — Newly filed legislation by a state senator could shore up the state’s collection of truancy court information and provide lawmakers and education leaders with a clearer picture of how ...

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 — In the five years since Appleton removed its truancy laws from the books, the district has worked to find other solutions — but, according to superintendent Greg Hartjes, they're still not ...

Truancy court warnings, attendance contracts and threatening letters are all things many Killeen ISD parents say they have received during the first half of this school year. Some parents have taken ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — New numbers show the Corpus Christi Independent School District has seen a decrease in truancy cases in the past two years. Student Support Services Director Ronald Kanipes ...

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 ...

DALLAS (AP) — A long-standing Texas law that has sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court — and some to jail — for missing school is off the books, though a Justice Department ...

There were several reasons for the absences, according to his mom, Tamika. The Baltimore Sun is not publishing her last name, or her son’s, out of respect for his privacy and concerns Tamika has for ...