truancy
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In contrast, at Locke, Green Dot agreed to manage an existing, massively struggling, eyesore campus associated with periodic brawls, truancy, single-digit academic proficiency rates, a 40% graduation rate and few college graduates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
A north London school has swapped truancy fines for parents for education awareness courses.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Older students faced fines or a suspended driver’s license for truancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
But they said the Academy Transformation Trust, which runs the school, had taken "decisive action" to address "unacceptable standards of behaviour and internal truancy".
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Being in law enforcement, Roy’s father probably was required to report all crimes, even truancy.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
He was hospitalized three times for psychiatric issues and had repeated school suspensions, expulsions and truancies much of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2018
The reports detailed his history of special education classes and school truancies, as well as 26 juvenile arrests, psychiatric hospitalizations and medical diagnoses, including post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood traumas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
When students realized that attendance officers could not call home to check up on them, Hinsdale schools reported a sudden surge in truancies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Student identification badges will not only immediately show who belongs and who doesn't but also contain bar codes school administrators can instantly scan to show everything from previous tardiness and truancies to medical records.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Arthur had the habit of the upper hand, and with a contemptuous fling at Clement's own truancies, took it now.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
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