Allison Crain received a bachelor’s degree in Social Work in 2001 from the University of Mississippi. Shortly thereafter, she began her career as a School Attendance Officer in Yalobusha County. Crain served as the School Attendance Officer for Yalobusha County for eleven years before bringing her passion and love of children to Lafayette County where she had served for seven years. She now has completed her first year as the Northern District Supervisor with the Office of Compulsory School Attendance in which she supervises 46 School Attendance Officers.
Allison devotes her time on and off the clock working with all children. She participates in many community and state programs that offer support to truant and needy families. Crain is an active member of the Communicare Map Team, Junior Auxiliary and Mississippi Chronic Absenteeism Task Force. She also serves as the Attendance Working Group Chairperson for L.O.U. Reads, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading in Oxford, Mississippi.