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Lake Central board adopts updated handbooks, highlights new attendance rules and reporting requirements
Summary
The Lake Central School Board approved updated elementary, middle and high school handbooks that incorporate new state attendance guidance, require follow-up after five unexcused absences and obligate schools to report chronically absent students to juvenile authorities under state definitions.
The Lake Central School Board on July 14 approved updated student handbooks for elementary, middle and high schools that add state-required attendance procedures and related changes to extracurricular eligibility.
Assistant Superintendent Castaneda told the board the updates reflect new state guidance on attendance and clarified how the district will classify excused and unexcused absences. “Per a new state law, schools must meet with parents after 5 unexcused absences. And then we have to report chronically absent students, which is defined by the state as either 10 unexcused absences or 18 total absences of any kind to juvenile authorities,” Castaneda said.
The change aligns the three handbooks to the state’s chronic-absence reporting rules and adds an infographic the…
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