Oct. 4—Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson says he's seeing great things from a new initiative that keeps kids in school and out of trouble. Anderson said the Helping Families Initiative ...

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, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - With school attendance being a national issue, a local truancy program is getting a boost of funds to help find the root cause of absenteeism. The Helping Families Initiative was ...

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 ...

The EWS program aims to address chronic absence from school by sitting down with students and their families and getting down ...

The Mahoning County Juvenile Court's Early Warning program has seen an 81% success rate in improving student attendance by ...

ELMORE, Ala. (WSFA) - Making sure kids make it to class is a priority for all school systems. Last year, a district judge launched an effort to improve student attendance in Elmore County and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Only Action News Jax sat down with Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan for exclusive details on a city-wide effort to make sure local students are going to school just as a new school ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new $7 million program was unveiled on Monday to help combat truancy in local schools. Truancy is when a student is chronically absent or tardy from classes. Both developers of this ...

grades six through eight, since 1999. School officials credited the program with increasing attendance rates from about 85 percent to an average of 95 to 96 percent during the past five years.

Local law enforcement seeking to keep children in school will be getting a boost next year with a funding increase for a key truancy program that looks at the root causes of kids missing school. While ...