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School board reviews and approves updates to attendance and student health-support policies
Summary
The school board reviewed revisions to attendance/truancy language and a new student health-support policy that clarifies parental notification, mental-health screening timing and referrals to outside clinical providers; board recommended approval.
The school board reviewed revisions to attendance and student health-support policies and recommended they be accepted as presented during the meeting. Board members discussed wording changes to attendance/truancy definitions and a separate policy to inform parents about available mental-health screenings and referrals. The changes matter because the attendance language affects how excused and unexcused absences and disciplinary events are recorded and because the health-support policy lays out how parents will learn about and request mental-health screenings and services for students. School staff said those…
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