Education minister to pare back board that tackles truancy

Alberta’s education minister is creating a new provincial attendance office and cutting the size of a board he said has been ineffective at improving chronic truancy.
Just a quarter of students referred to Alberta’s 118-member attendance board in 2014-15 improved their school attendance, Eggen said Wednesday.
The quasi-judicial board, which has powers such as referring a truant student to court and ordering parents to pay a fine or take their child to a treatment program, may no