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Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.
This is a list of schools closed by the Detroit Public Schools Community District. There have been about 200 school closures since 2000. There have been about 200 school closures since 2000. Some have been repurposed, while others were torn down, most remain vacant though, although the exact number is unclear.
As of 2006 students frequently dropped out of the school. In August 2003, the 9th grade class had 700 students. By December 2006 that class had 200 students. [6] According to former DPS superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, who was interviewed in the 2011 Dan Rather report "A National Disgrace," a typical class's student body declined from about 800-900 9th graders to 545 in the 10th grade, 345 ...
After a coalition of civil rights and disability rights groups made a complaint to the Texas Education Agency that Corpus Christi ISD's truancy practices discriminate against students with ...
But these three recommendations could reverse a decades-long problem, according to a state-convened group. Fixing Michigan's population problem means reworking education, adding public transit ...
Michigan’s board of regents has also signaled it will reconsider other DEI initiatives. FIRE's survey polled 6,269 faculty members at 55 major colleges and universities over a three-month period.
Further, there exists anecdotal evidence of truancy problems with gifted children, who sometimes miss school because of disengagement, and worse, fear of bullying. In 1999, legislation was introduced in Colorado to recognize gifted students as at-risk, with truancy as a factor, but the bill did not become law.
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