BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Tasha Whitton’s high school senior recently started driving himself to school every morning, but she didn’t realize his arriving a few minutes late here and there would add ...

New state law improving truancy rates in Greene County schools A new state law aimed at reducing truancy in public schools means officials are working more with students and parents before a complaint ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Keeping students in the classroom has been a priority for school officials and Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood who launched the Helping Families Initiative in ...

Despite vows to boost attendance and more than $17 million being poured into anti-truancy programs, absence rates in D.C. Public Schools worsened last year while the city’s charter schools showed ...

However, The Post found that the truancy rate began rising for DCPS middle-schoolers before the pandemic, from 10 percent in the 2014-2015 school year to more than 30 percent in 2018-2019 and ...

A year after D.C. leaders vowed to crack down on student attendance problems, data shows truancy in the city’s public schools has returned to pre-pandemic levels while chronic absenteeism is at its ...

Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers. Teenage ...

Louisiana K-12 unexcused absences remain above 40% since 2020 Truancy highest in Tensas, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, and St. Landry parishes Chronic absenteeism statewide is 22.5%, slightly below ...