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.

As the number of young people victimized by or charged with crimes in the District increases, tens of thousands of D.C. students are chronically truant. But less than half were referred to other ...

Lawmakers passed a law preventing habitually truant students from enrolling in cyber charter schools. Some cyber leaders say ...

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MIDDLETON - Did you know state code lets cities make their own laws when it comes to kids missing class? In Middleton, parents and students over 16 years old will have to pay up when their absences ...

Chronic truancy dropped in Washington, D.C., last school year compared to during the pandemic, but too many kids are still missing too much school, especially at D.C.'s high schools, where nearly half ...

In a hushed, wood-paneled courtroom in downtown Ventura, attorney William Quest argued before three black-robed justices. His client: A ninth-grader convicted of truancy. A juvenile judge in a lower ...

EARLIER this month, the Washington Supreme Court reversed an appeals court ruling that truant students must be represented by attorneys at the earliest stage of truancy hearings. Many of us from ...

News about a Michigan teen sent to jail for missing online assignments this spring served as a cautionary tale for how kids could still be punished for not attending class, even if their schools move ...

A state task force likes the idea, but one former officer says the proposed job description could be a bit too much. Editor's note: The podcast episode has two segments. The portion dealing with our ...