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Senate bill seeks to reignite local School Climate Committees and require county attendance reporting to tackle chronic absenteeism
Summary
SB 123 would rename and update attendance language, require School Climate Committees to meet at least twice a year, create attendance review teams for systems or schools exceeding thresholds, and require DOE county‑by‑county reports to legislative education chairs beginning 2026; committee gave the bill a due‑pass recommendation.
President Pro Tempore presented Senate Bill 123, opening with state absenteeism statistics: he said 22.6% of Georgia public‑school students were chronically absent last year (defined in the bill as missing 10% or more of school days). He told the committee chronic absenteeism remained elevated since COVID and affects roughly 360,000 students statewide.
The bill modernizes language (changing “mandatory attendance” to “compulsory attendance”), clarifies who…
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