An Evaluation of the 2016 Act to Promote Attendance and Reduce Truancy

We could not rule The legislature tasked WSIPP with out the the possibility that outcomes might have evaluating the “effectiveness of the act.”2 been worse had the law not passed, and we were The following sections fulfill the legislative unable to measure long-term outcomes. [...] SL.pdf Changes Affecting Schools The new legislation made the following requirements regarding CTBs: Some of the major changes of the 2016 and • Mandatory establishment: Each juvenile 2017 legislation included requiring schools court was required to sign memorandums to do the following: of understanding with the school districts • Increase the amount of information in their jurisdiction to establi. [...] decline in the proportion of qualified students receiving a truancy petition Additionally, some juvenile court immediately following the passage of the administrators explained that schools lack law, with a slight increase in the years resources, training, and personnel to file following implementation of the law. [...] would change if the King County records were included.53 As with some of the prior analyses, it appears that changes in the use of Exhibit 17 shows the percentage of truancy detention for truant youth were largely petitions resulting in an admission initiated prior to the passage of the new detention in Washington State from the legislation. [...] Across all and admission in detention is the only characteristics, the rate of detention leverage that the court has to encourage admission declined following the youth to attend truancy hearings and to implementation of the 2016 legislative adhere to the conditions of their truancy- changes.