truancy , also: truantry

At some city schools the truancy rate was greater than 80 percent.

But with all the truancy, he was behind in every subject and feeling as if he'd let his mother down.

Particularly concerned about truancy, she has also been working with the police to get students back in class.

There have been few problems with truancy from existing programs.

Other problems in local schools include low test scores and high truancy rates.

Trace has a record of truancy and fighting at school.

She is enrolled in second grade here, having been held back because of past truancy.

No one has been evicted because of truancy, she said.

Parents, children and educators give a variety of reasons for the children's truancy.

The biggest contributor to poor performance, the report found, was truancy.

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

"Our truancy patrols will be the same as they always are," she said.

It is thought that this reduces truancy on particular days also.

But in his time, truancy was reduced significantly if not stopped.

But in Detroit, even students acknowledge that truancy is a problem.

He also sought to fight truancy among school aged children.

The first thing we had to do, therefore, was to determine what counted as truancy.

Last year, 38 of her 43 students passed the test, and the five who failed had chronic truancy problems.

Persistent truancy is half the national average at 2.3 per cent.

School officials say they will introduce the program in about 200 schools with the highest truancy rates.

If no excuse had been sent he called on the parents, so truancy was kept to a minimum.

Information about truancy rates will be available to parents.

The caller to the Chicago schools' special truancy line wanted to ask a hypothetical question.

There are a number of expressions in English which refer to truancy.

Public housing advocates question the fairness of the truancy policy.