CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — New numbers show the Corpus Christi Independent School District has seen a decrease in truancy cases in the past two years. Student Support Services Director Ronald Kanipes ...

More than 86,000 Texas teens have been sent to court for missing school since lawmakers’ 2015 reforms made truancy a civil matter, rather than criminal. A KXAN investigation found cases are escalating ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District released data showing how often it referred kids to truancy court this school year, revealing a significant decline from the previous year.

SAN ANTONIO — Over the last five years, lawmakers in Texas have been grappling with the issues of dropout rates and truancy. What's changed is the long held reliance on justice of the peace and ...

Schools only have so many tools and intervention techniques at their disposal to mitigate a student’s truancy issues, and some districts have more resources than others. When a student continues to be ...

Frank J. Pallone Jr. has had many truancy cases come before him during his 24 years as a district judge in New Kensington. In those hearings, Pallone said he takes the time to learn what is going on ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Three Texas lawmakers are looking for ways the state can better collect data on truancy cases, following a KXAN investigation that discovered no state agency has tracked outcomes for ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) In 2011, when criminal penalties were first tied to truancy, five parents in Orange County were arrested for their ...

The judge denies an allegation by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct that he raised his voice and spoke in an agitated and aggressive manner while hearing truancy cases and directly inquired ...

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 ...