Frank J. Pallone Jr. has had many truancy cases come before him during his 24 years as a district judge in New Kensington. In those hearings, Pallone said he takes the time to learn what is going on ...

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 ...

A Pennsylvania mother of seven died in a jail cell where she was serving a two-day sentence for her children’s absence from school, drawing complaints from the judge that sent her there about a broken ...

In 2021, the North Dakota Legislature passed a bill that directed truancy cases to social services rather than to juvenile ...

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 ...

The judge denies an allegation by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct that he raised his voice and spoke in an agitated and aggressive manner while hearing truancy cases and directly inquired ...

South Dakota’s success rate for keeping truancy cases out of court is the lowest it’s been in a decade, according to an annual report presented to a state committee. The Juvenile Justice Reinvestment ...

Sparked by a backlog of truancy cases in Fort Bend County, a proposed state law to create centralized truancy courts in certain counties has cleared the House of the 82nd Texas Legislature. House Bill ...

A state law aimed at cutting down on rampant truancy rates in Kentucky led more families to withdraw their children from public school districts in favor of homeschooling, according to local officials ...

Enrollment is down at Midland ISD; however, the daily attendance rate is rated higher than the district’s goal. Superintendent Stephanie Howard told trustees this week that as of Friday, Sept. 12, the ...