Mariana Perez missed school more often last year than she does now. The eighth-grader in Maryland is part of a longtime Montgomery County program to help middle school students improve attendance and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 4—Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson says he's seeing great things from a new initiative that keeps kids in ...

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 ...

Learn more about the processes and services available to children and their families for needed services and support. In 1993, a 13-year-old runaway named Rebecca Hedman ("Becca") was murdered in ...

The judge looked around the library at Garnet-Patterson Middle School. Everyone was there. Everyone except the students and their parents. This, Lee F. Satterfield thought to himself, was going to be ...

Douglas County commissioners meet on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Douglas County’s new truancy program will move forward despite lingering concerns about how it will serve students and families. Since ...

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 ...

An empty classroom is pictured in this stock photo. A local education leader is raising concerns that Douglas County’s proposed truancy program would replace direct services for families with a case ...

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 ...

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