A 29-year-old former truancy officer for Moorhead schools will be registered as a sex offender for the next 15 years because of a December incident involving a 16-year-old boy. Kimberly Michelle Nack ...

Parents of a chronically truant pupil could be forced to do community service at their child’s school. The City Council introduced an amendment to the municipal truancy law last night that would allow ...

It’s not by the power of the pen or a symbolic sword that Highlands School District administrators are fighting chronic student absenteeism but rather a... Frank J. Pallone Jr. has had many truancy ...

The death of a Reading woman serving a two-day sentence for truancy violations who died in her Berks County Jail cell has been ruled natural, authorities said Thursday. Eileen DiNino, 55, was found ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI - Two women are in the Muskegon County Jail because they refused to send their children to school - even after they were given repeated opportunities right down to the final hour ...

HARRISBURG — The House Education Committee on Wednesday passed legislation that would remove mandatory jail sentences in school truancy cases. House Bill 141 would allow Pennsylvania judges to ...

A mother of seven, serving a two-day jail sentence because she had not paid fines in connection with her children's absences from school, was found dead Saturday in a Pennsylvania jail cell. The death ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Kanawha County judge has reduced a St. Albans woman’s truancy sentence to a $50 fine following a ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court. Circuit Court Judge Duke Bloom ...

Truancy court warnings, attendance contracts and threatening letters are all things many Killeen ISD parents say they have received during the first half of this school year. Some parents have taken ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — A Muskegon Heights mother whose two children missed school numerous times is in jail, the Muskegon County prosecutor’s office confirms. A Muskegon County judge last week ...

Neighbors are struggling to come to grips with news that their friend, a mother of seven in Reading, died Saturday in the Berks County Jail. Neighbors are struggling to come to grips with news that ...

A Tasmanian couple is appealing against a $4,000 fine handed down for keeping their son away from school. Last year, the man and woman pleaded guilty to failing to ensure their 11-year-old son ...