Schools to absent students: We want you here
Twenty years after Washington lawmakers passed a law requiring kids attend school, the state is still grappling with identifying students who habitually miss class. While the state pushes responsibility to each district, individual schools bear most of the weight to find the students sliding into a statistic.
Half of Washington鈥檚 juvenile court proceedings revolve around truancy cases, or students who collect unexcused absences. However, a recent study by Washington state courts estimated those cases only reflect one-third of students who qualify as truant.
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