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 ...

Viki Thevenow, executive director of the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County, has worked in or around the county's juvenile justice system for most of her life. One of the most prevalent problems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When 12-year-old Israel Makeda’s absences from Montgomery Village Middle School started piling up, school staff and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Truancy Prevention Program got the 7th ...

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.