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School attendance officers are required to report students who are habitually truant, or who have missed 10 days of school without an excuse, to juvenile court or the Department of Child Services.—
Nadia Scharf,
The Courier-Journal,
1 July 2024 The bill now requires schools to develop truancy prevention policies and to meet with the Department of Child Services and the state attendance officer once a year to discuss their efforts.—
Kayla Dwyer,
The Indianapolis Star,
2 Feb. 2024 Her mother, Mary, served as a high school attendance officer while maintaining several other jobs to support Betty and her brother and sister.—
Kovie Biakolo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Aug. 2022 In Virginia’s Fairfax County, the school district’s central office employs 15 attendance officers whose duties include investigating residency fraud.—
Peter Jamison,
Washington Post,
16 Apr. 2018