SCHOOLS $20M TRUANCY PRICE TAG
Truant elementary students cost North Coast school districts in Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake and Napa counties more than $20 million, according to a state attorney general's report.
Sonoma County's 12 percent truancy rate is one of the state's lowest. But the 5,000 truant students cost county schools $14 million last year.
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