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 ...

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.

Nov. 22—SUNBURY — Northumberland County launched a truancy court on Monday to address the growing number of student absentees in the county's school districts. President Judge Charles Saylor, Children ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — Truancy rates across the United States have reached alarming levels, with far fewer children regularly attending school when compared to the 2019-2020 school year, which ...

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

MISSOURI CITY, Texas – A new report is questioning the way Texas handles truancy in the state's schools. According to the non-profit advocacy group Texas Appleseed, the state is one of just two that ...

The investigative piece, “The Price Kids Pay: Schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior” highlights a troubling practice that instead of recognizing typical ...

Editor’s Note: The video at the top of the story is from our original reporting on a lack of truancy court data. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District released data showing how often ...