New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for policies to increase school attendance of homeless children, following an audit that found more than half of students in shelters were chronically absent from public schools. (wsj.com)
Participants include 3D printer startup BOT Factory and Kinvolved, a company looking to help increase school attendance through an app. (entrepreneur.com)
Parents of truanting children are to be fined from their child benefit under new measures to increase school attendance announced today. (politics.co.uk)