California Gov. Gavin Newsom has played his hand by ending the controversial policy that punished parents for their children’s chronic truancy, once sponsored by former Vice President Kamala Harris, ...

Sen. Kamala Harris, months into her 2020 bid for president, said she regrets that her crackdown on parents of truant students resulted in jail time in some jurisdictions. No parents in San Francisco ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on Wednesday signed a bill that reversed the state’s anti-truancy law, one of the most contentious policies that former Vice President Kamala Harris championed more than a ...

Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday expressed “regret” over the “unintended consequences” of a 2011 California truancy law, which she supported as the state attorney general and which she said led to the ...