truancy
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Assembly Bill 461 would end the treatment of truancy as a crime under state law.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025
Older students faced fines or a suspended driver’s license for truancy.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025
Mr Tate, who also banned shouting, said internal truancy - when pupils are in school but not lessons - was now "almost nil" and there was better focus in classrooms.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
He said banning phones had also addressed the problem of "pupils texting one another to meet in the toilets, or be out of lessons", leading to a reduction in internal truancy.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
I imagined the school truancy officers—Recruiters, we called them—coming for us, noses to the wind, sunglasses reflecting the row of houses behind which we were nestled in our wooden dream home.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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