Melissa Keller has been a truancy officer in Lafayette Parish schools for nearly 20 years. Lately, she's been busier than ever. Chronic absenteeism, or the share of students who miss at least 10% or ...

Bibb County using $345K in speed cam funds to hire a truancy officer. Windsor Academy receives $109K for new security cameras via camera program. School zone speeding citations resume August 4 with ...

Nancy Saunders, the FWPS BECCA / Truancy Representative, was recognized at a recent School Board meeting for earning a Distinguished Service Award from the King County BECCA Program. The award is well ...

“Count Me Present”: A Retired Cop’s Field-Tested Fix for America’s School Absenteeism Crisis Holly Ridge, NC, 4/29/2026. Susie Winfield, an Army veteran, retired police officer, and former school ...

Finding out why students aren’t in class and what they need to break that pattern is the goal of the Lafayette Parish School System’s Office of Student Welfare and Absenteeism. Truancy Officers ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — We want to highlight a man from Flour Bluff who won free Chick-fil-A for a year! Truancy officer Joe Kramer and a level 3 security officer for Flour Bluff was selected by ...

The criminal prosecution of school truancy should be ended, and replaced as quickly as possible with a more appropriate and effective system for addressing students who skip classes, the Council for ...

The Northern Territory government has backed its “carrot-and-stick” approach to get kids to school, blaming severe weather to ...