RE-1 Valley School District is seeing success with its truancy program. Cindy Reyes, district family community advocate, and Elizabeth Mauler, student services director, gave an update on the program, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The problem of students habitually skipping school was a problem facing the Mahoning County Juvenile ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new $7 million program was unveiled on Monday to help combat truancy in local schools. Truancy is when a student is chronically absent or tardy from classes. Both developers of this ...

ELMORE, Ala. (WSFA) - Making sure kids make it to class is a priority for all school systems. Last year, a district judge launched an effort to improve student attendance in Elmore County and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Members of the Appleton community gathered inside the Appleton Public Library to share their thoughts and ...

MORGAN CO., Ala. (WAFF) - The Morgan County district attorney says he wants to expand the truancy program started by Decatur City Schools into the county. The Helping Families Initiative, or simply ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Only Action News Jax sat down with Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan for exclusive details on a city-wide effort to make sure local students are going to school just as a new school ...

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 ...

Last year a student kept missing school to baby-sit a sibling because the child's mother had to work and couldn't afford day care. Another student didn't see the need to go to school when the child's ...