In extreme examples, parents could face prosecution for high truancy rates

Gazette: Review board hears cases that didn’t improve through intervention

When the system tries and still can’t get kids to stop missing school, their parents could face criminal charges.
Prosecutors estimate that in the last year, they brought charges against 25 to 30 parents, including a recent case in which a mother was sentenced to a week in jail...

...Aurea Cosme-Torres, whose current address is listed in Hyattsville, is the mother of a girl who attends school in Montgomery County.
Cosme-Torres recently spent a week in jail and must serve a year of supervised probation, after her daughter missed 48 percent of the 2012-13 school year at Piney Branch Elementary in Silver Spring, Zeager said.
In that case, court records show, the school contacted the mother at least 27 times to send her daughter to school and had her appear before a truancy review board three times...