It's part of our innovative new effort with NYC Service to reduce school truancy.

For school truancy the most number of persistent truants are in Manchester with a rate of 7.3%, followed by Knowsley with 6.9%, and Blackpool with 6.6%.

He also tried to play down a piece of evidence - a 1985 record of his school truancy - by lowering his head and blowing at the paper.

The system has its drawbacks as a response to school truancy.

Jones was a strong-willed autocrat who excluded the young Pancho Gonzales from the Club because of his school truancy.

We target low socio-economic areas to decrease unemployment and other social factors such as; domestic violence, gambling, school truancy and other issues.

Boys were generally incarcerated for relatively minor scrapes with the law, including school truancy.

The alleged use of taking children's fingerprints is to struggle against school truancy and/or to replace library cards or money for meals by fingerprint locks.

For American readers, at least, underworld suggests some form of organized crime, but Mr. Thomas includes virtually everything short of school truancy in his definition.

Thus began the Police Department's new program to combat school truancy.