truancy

As students head back to school, districts are faced with the age-old problem of making sure they show up. A principal in St. Louis resorted to extreme measures: installing washers and dryers.

Since the mid-1990s, Texas has treated truancy as a criminal offense. Now, state lawmakers say that was a mistake.

As the school year comes to a close across the city, results continue to show in changes to truancy policy at one major school district. A plan enacted in…

AUSTIN — Disabled students say they were charged with truancy and funneled out of public schools, according to an official complaint they filed Wednesday,…

A study in an Indian slum tried promising a reward: Improve your attendance, and you'll get a small treat. But for third-graders, sometimes these incentive schemes can do more harm than good.

AUSTIN — The Texas House has approved a potentially landmark measure to stop charging students who skip school with a criminal offense.Houston Democratic…

Chronic, unexcused absence from school in Texas often sends students and parents to adult criminal courts.

After some heated debate and some changes, a bill that reforms how school districts can respond to children repeatedly missing class passed in the Texas…

A new report from Texas Appleseed, Class, Not Court: Reconsidering Texas' Criminalization of Truancy, found that Texas filed approximately 115,000 truancy…

AUSTIN — A new report calls truancy policies in Texas a “flawed and inequitable patchwork” that led to the criminal prosecution of 115,000 children for…