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 ...

Mayo High School and Willow Creek Middle School were chosen for a truancy pilot program because the officials at the school expressed interest and came to Olmsted County with the idea, said county ...

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 ...

Of the 33 students deemed "continuing truant" in Rochester's Willow Creek Middle School, 63.6 percent ended up changing their class-skipping habits and avoided a court petition last year. Mayo High ...

On Thursday, Caddo Commissioners voted to spend $60,000 for a parish truancy program that Juvenile Services and the Volunteers for Youth Justice will run. Caddo Juvenile Services Director Clay Walker ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — If your child is not in school, somebody is going to be knocking on your door. That’s basically the message the Caddo district attorney’s and Shreveport city marshal’s offices ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — Thank you for voting on wsoctv.com. Do You Think The CMS Truancy Program Is A Good Idea? Do you the CMS' truancy program is a good idea? Yes No I don't know Police in Charlotte ...

Truancy rates spiked after the Truancy Intervention and Parent Accountability Program was axed during budget cuts in 2008, so county and school district leaders are designing a new program that could ...

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, ...

In Fayette County, truancy needs to be treated at deeper levels, rather than just as a punishment. Jose Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee Staff Photo Truancy is a pertinent issue in public education.