![]() ![]() And they said it was further strengthening the school-to-prison pipeline and, you know, really setting these families up for failure when, in a lot of cases, chronic absenteeism is a symptom of other issues going on.” “And those cases would mostly impact Black, Hispanic and low-income families, according to advocates who studied the problem. “And these cases would end up in criminal courts with kids facing really steep fines, as well as, in some cases, jail time for the failure to attend school, which was considered a crime. There were more than 100,000 cases filed one year against children and their parents,” Richman said. “The truancy system in Texas was really ensnaring huge numbers of families. “It was, you know, just kind of off the charts compared to other states with how many kids it was going after,” Richman said. Groups that pushed for those reforms are concerned the state could backtrack on the decriminalization of truancy in the state following the Uvalde shooting. “And they think that that could be something that needs more teeth, which would be a reversal of the Legislature’s position in 2015, when they took those steps to decriminalize truancy and instead of focus on lower-stakes interventions for families.”īefore reforms in 2015, Texas had a policy in place that criminalized truancy. Is there something we need to do to crack down on absenteeism?” Richman said. “And so that made lawmakers think clearly that should have been a flag that something was wrong. ![]() One such sign was a history of truancy, said Talia Richman, who has been reporting on this for the Dallas Morning News’ Education Lab. During marathon legislative hearings following the mass shooting in Uvalde, lawmakers and leaders of the state’s education agency have been discussing plans of doing a reverse behavioral threat assessment of the shooter – meaning the Texas Education Agency would go through the shooter’s academic history and look for signs of trouble. ![]()
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