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School board narrows legislative platform; members push to lower chronic-absence trigger and adjust kindergarten hours
Summary
Board members discussed and directed staff to refine the district’s legislative requests, including proposals to lower the threshold that triggers chronic-absence intervention from 10 unexcused absences to five, and to align kindergarten instructional hours with grades 1–3.
Board Member Dr. Lisonbee Campbell presented proposed legislative priorities and asked the board to refine language ahead of several meetings with state legislators. Campbell recommended separating two attendance-related proposals: (1) a statutory change allowing districts to initiate chronic-absence strategies sooner than current language and (2) a related change to kindergarten instructional hours.
Campbell told the board she would seek to amend Fla. Stat. §1003.26 (subsection 1(b) language discussed in prior sessions) to allow earlier district…
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