Appleton students are one step closer to risking a fine if they skip class. A city committee on Sept. 24 recommended the Common Council approve a truancy enforcement ordinance. Two members of the five ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Newly filed legislation by a state senator could shore up the state’s collection of truancy court information and provide lawmakers and education leaders with a clearer picture of how ...

For months, Michael Turner believed his son Caleb was simply missing more school than usual because of occasional illnesses ...

In the landscape of K-12 education, attendance has long been viewed as a logistical issue–a checkbox to be marked, a statistic to be tracked. But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy ...

At the beginning of last year, one of my brightest students, Marcus, a junior, started missing school. It was gradual at first — one or two days here and there — but it soon became clear that he was ...