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Senate panel advances bill to revive school "climate" committees, require attendance reviews for chronic absenteeism
Summary
Senate Bill 123 would expand and reactivate local "school climate committees," require attendance review teams when absenteeism reaches set thresholds, and create biennial reporting to state leaders; sponsor cited a statewide chronic absenteeism rate above 22 percent.
Senate Bill 123 was presented to the Senate Education and Youth Committee as a package aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism. The sponsor told the committee that 22.6 percent of Georgia public-school students were chronically absent last year and that 380,000 students missed at least 10 percent of school days (about 18 days), figures the sponsor used to justify the measure’s urgency.
The bill would: revise statutory language to harmonize the term "compulsory attendance," expand and reactivate local "school climate committees," require those committees to update student-attendance protocols by June 1, 2026,…
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