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Board backs code cleanup on truancy, parental consent for interventions
Summary
The state board voted to ask staff to work with the Legislature to amend multiple code sections on school attendance and parental consent and to unify overlapping attendance and truancy language into a single section.
The Utah State Board of Education voted to ask staff to work with the Legislature to amend multiple statutes related to student attendance, parental consent for interventions and the labeling of students for truancy.
Member Boggess moved a multi-part request to amend Section 53G-6-206(2)(a) to remove language requiring LEAs to “resolve school absenteeism and school truancy issues,” to add a requirement in sections 3(a) and 3(g) that certain…
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