By Todd R. Hansen
Solano County school districts lost nearly $11.5 million in state student funding due to increased truancy at its elementary schools during the 2012-13 school year, the state Attorney General’s Office reported.
The countywide truancy rate for 2012-13 was 22.01 percent, up 3.41 percent from the previous term, the state reported, for a loss of $189.96 per elementary school pupil.
Those figures are up from $182.77 per pupil in the 2011-12 school year, totaling nearly $11.128 million, the report states.