Despite decades of efforts to improve school attendance and truancy, a KXAN investigation found Texas doesn’t track student withdrawals due to unexcused absences. On top of that, schools are only ...

More than 86,000 Texas teens have been sent to court for missing school since lawmakers’ 2015 reforms made truancy a civil matter, rather than criminal. A KXAN investigation found cases are escalating ...

Losing a loved one can derail a child’s life, and it often causes them to miss out on normal childhood experiences. That’s why Experience Camps was created 15 years ago.

How healthy is your child? Other factors like the quality of a health care system, access to healthy food, and availability of fluoridated water can also have a significant influence on a child's ...

Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals ...