What is truancy?
A student in California is truant if he or she misses more than 30 minutes of school without a valid excuse more than three times a year.
Students are chronically truant if they are absent at least 10 percent of the school year without a valid excuse.
Valid excuses include doctor or dentist appointments, an illness or parent- or guardian-approved reasons.
Source: “In School and On Track,” California attorney general's 2013 report on California's elementary school truancy and absenteeism crisis.