Many years ago in Texas we had a pilot project - not state funded - which was launched by truancy monitor at one of the local schools, a local JP and a psychologist. Parents of children who were chronically truant or absent had to appear before a JP. Family was either ordered for family counseling or parents fined. In one case no inventions seemed to work so JP put both parents in jail for 24 hours. Program worked and was showing results but fell apart when newly hired truancy monitor at school refused to participate stating he was too busy checking on truants to do any interventions.
Behind every government teacher stand courts and police. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip.)
I actually don’t think, that at this point, we need to waste more resources forcing people to do what is only to their own good, to do. At some point you have to just cut bait. We are wasting billions of dollars on people who have no excuse in this day and age for not knowing that in a First World country, you cannot make a decent living and future without even a minimum of education. It’s not as if all the resources wasted in trying to force them to do what they know they need to do, to escape the cycle of dependency, are shrinking the welfare rolls. All that’s happening thanks to this waste is the dumbing-down of education for the rest.