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Committee approves updated attendance policy language with rewrite stipulation before full-board review
Summary
After questions about how skipping individual classes is classified and how the district will track and respond to absences, the Teaching and Learning Committee approved revised Instruction 101.1 (attendance) and directed additional clarifying edits before the full Board review.
The Manchester School District Teaching and Learning Committee voted Feb. 11 to approve revisions to Instruction 101.1 (attendance) and send the policy to the full School Board with the stipulation that language clarifying how class absences and skipping will be categorized be refined before the full-board packet.
The committee discussion centered on two points: first, how the policy distinguishes excused and unexcused absences and what counts as an “unexcused absence” (for example, a single skipped period versus a full-day absence); and second, how the…
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