MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - With school attendance being a national issue, a local truancy program is getting a boost of funds to help find the root cause of absenteeism. The Helping Families Initiative was ...

A pilot program aimed at reducing middle school truancy in Caddo Parish cut absenteeism rates at eight schools during the 2025-26 school year, according to Caddo District ...

Southeast Texas has contributed to a substantial increase in the number of state criminal truancy cases, and Texas has the highest number of cases in the country. According to Port Arthur Deputy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portage County Juvenile Court Judge Patricia Smith has suggested Riddle Block 1 for a program aimed at keeping juveniles out of ...

In an attempt to save money, the New York Department of Education canceled a program geared to get truant students back to class, according to the Daily News. Started in 1998 in Brooklyn, the Truancy ...

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 ...

Douglas County commissioners met on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. Douglas County commissioners reviewed a proposed elementary and middle school truancy initiative set to launch as early as the 2026-2027 ...

Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education. However, the American public education attendance policy, specifically Fayette County’s, creates disparate policies for neurodivergent and struggling ...

A Ravenna landmark might become the site for a program designed to keep youth from entering the juvenile detention system. Judge Patricia Smith, judge in Portage County Probate Court and Juvenile ...