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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of two single mothers who were charged with violating the state’s compulsory attendance law after their children missed school without a documented illness. Oral arguments in May focused on what “regular attendance” means and whether the state law was too vague. Ellen Flottman, a public defender […]

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of two single mothers who were charged with violating the state’s compulsory attendance law after their children missed school without a

Two single mothers faced jail time after they “knowingly failed to cause their children” to attend the Esther Elementary School in Lebanon, Missouri. Read more here

Two single mothers faced jail time after they “knowingly failed to cause their children” to attend the Esther Elementary School in Lebanon, Missouri. Read more here

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of two single mothers who were charged with violating the state’s compulsory attendance law after their children

  The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of two single mothers who were charged with violating the state’s compulsory attendance law after their children …

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of two single mothers who were charged with violating the states compulsory attendance law after their children missed school without a documented illness.

Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robin Ransom wrote, with five in concurrence, that the unexcused absences in the case violated state law.

The parents notified the school of some absences due to illness, but not all of them.

The parents notified the school of some absences due to illness, but not all of them.