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District staff outline proposed attendance policy changes including remote attendance, recovery process and a no‑credit code
Summary
SCCPSS staff presented recommended revisions to attendance policy/regulation JBA/JBAR1 that would align local practice with state guidance, create attendance‑recovery options, add a no‑credit grading code for excessive unexcused absences and allow limited remote attendance days.
District staff on May 7 presented a comprehensive review of attendance practices and proposed revisions to policy JBA and regulation JBAR1 that would change how Savannah‑Chatham County Public School System measures and responds to student absences.
Miss McGuire, a district attendance lead, told the Board that the system’s key attendance metric currently shows 74.5% of students are absent fewer than 10% of enrolled days (the district’s CCRPI‑based measure) and that the district’s goal was to raise that rate by 3 percentage points. Staff said preliminary analysis shows little progress this year at the secondary level and recommended a package of policy, procedural and communications changes.
Among the staff proposals: define "truancy" to match state guidance (five or more unexcused absences), add an NC (no‑credit) grading code to record failure to meet attendance requirements, create an attendance‑recovery pathway, and establish a limited…
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