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 ...

While California’s school truancy law remains on the books, school districts in recent years appear to have become less and less likely to enforce punitive measures against parents. Multiple phone ...

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