Baltimore County police and the county executive have described the recent fatal shooting of a 16-year-old high school ...

While prosecution for parents of chronically absent students remains rare in Indiana, its threat is causing frustration, ...

A mother has been jailed for failing to stop her children playing truant. Patricia Amos, 43, was sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment by magistrates at Banbury, Oxfordshire, last week for not ...

The number of elementary and junior high school students who failed to attend classes for 30 days and deemed "futoko" truant hit an all-time high in the last fiscal year, which ended in March 2022.

Multiple phone calls, emails, letters and requests for meetings are what parents should expect if their child is deemed truant. If those steps don’t get the child back into school, state law gives ...

Iowa lawmakers have been discussing chronic absenteeism since at least last year. Now, state lawmakers are working to give ...

The results showed the number of elementary and junior high students who did not go to school for 30 days or more and were deemed truant in fiscal 2021 was 48,813 more than the previous year’s ...