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Clover School District proposes tighter limits on attendance hardship requests, recommends school-zone return after program completion
Summary
District staff presented recommended changes to the hardship/attendance policy, including limiting childcare-based hardships to K–5, removing psychiatric/psychological language while reserving superintendent designee discretion, and clarifying out‑of‑district employee hardship rules; board agreed to move the revisions for first reading.
Clover School District staff on Tuesday proposed changes to the district's student hardship and attendance-zone policy aimed at tightening eligibility and aligning policy language with administrative rules.
The recommendations, presented by a district administrator identified in the meeting as Mr. Ruth, include limiting childcare-related hardship approvals to kindergarten through fifth grade, removing a hardship category tied to psychological or psychiatric reasons while retaining discretion for the superintendent's designee to grant exceptions for extenuating circumstances, and clarifying that out-of-district employees seeking a hardship must have the hardship tied to their place of employment or that workplace's feeder pattern.
The changes also would require hardship requests to be submitted yearly and make a student's continued eligibility…
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