Tea -check from Truancy data according to KPRC 2 examination

Houston, Texas – The Texas Education Agency has checked the debris data submitted by school districts in the past four years. The review was triggered by questions from KPRC 2 Investigate team about the efforts to prevent tranances in Texas.

A KPRC 2 analysis of Truancy data that was submitted to the Tea shows that around 1 million children were reported every year for the school years 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.

In Texas, a student is Truant if he has 10 or more unexcused absences in six months. The Texas Education Code also obliges school districts to take and use measures to prevent unrest to bring children back into class.

The law of Texas also obliges school districts to notify parents if a child has three or more unexcused absences in one month. According to Tea, the data published as part of the Texas Public Information Act 13-14 percent of the districts in the past four school years stated that there were no efforts to prevent unrest.

The data also shows between 60 and 64 percent of the districts that report more unrest every year than preventing the unrest. The Texas Education Code also enables the symptoms to be submitted to parents who contribute to their child's non -ancillary in the submission of symptoms.

According to tea data, between 48 and 52 percent of the school districts have not given any complaints from unrest in the past four school years.

The tea is accused of ensuring the school districts that they follow the law. When KPRC 2 examines that this analysis was sent to the tea, we were informed: “The self -reported data unit of TEE (SRDU) initiates a comprehensive analysis and review of the data.”

School districts report this data themselves in the tea. Agency officers will now determine whether the questions raised by KPRC 2 contain problems with the storage of school districts or the non -compliance with the law.

“We left the unrest, explode this problem” Senator Paul Bettencourt/(r) said. 7. “We have to focus on something against the unrest instead of ignoring it.“

Bettencourt submitted SB 570 in this meeting to “restart the process of civil care”. This is the second time that BettenCourt submitted an invoice to fix the Truancy in Texas.

“The first thing you have to do is to be committed, and if you do not submit any provision at all, this means that you do not do anything for these children, and that is unacceptable“ said Bettencourt.

Dr. Bob Sanborn, President and CEO of children in danger, said that public relations were the key because the children miss the class for a number.

“You can not only say that it is up to the children and it is up to the parents it is more likely that it is absent,” said Sanborn. “In the worst case, I think you have districts that may not take care of reporting this data and maybe not doing a good job. But what you really want to see is that you take it seriously and say that we do everything we can to get out of there and get these children back. “

Mike Matranga is a retired US Secret Service Agent and former head of the security and security of ISD from Texas City, he is now the deputy chairman of the National Council for School Security.

“Why is the child of this child? Is it socio -economic? Do you have no transport? Are you neglected at home? Is there a bullying problem that takes place at school that prevents it from getting there? These are all things that have been attributed to campus in the whole nation, ”said Matranga. “Nobody takes up this data and breaks it up and analyzes it to identify students who are known through things that we know known, well -known factors such as the insolence such as the academic decline such as the increase in discipline.”