Courts begin fining rural parents if children skip school: Education | adn.com

Courts begin fining rural parents if children skip school: Education | adn.com:

But "[a]ttendance rates show no dramatic trend over the past year."

I worked with kids for a few years in rural Alaska. It's weird how attendance rates vary by village. Also, truancy is a lot more complicated that simply not showing up to school, but enforcing school attendance rules is really the only tool the school has.