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East Stroudsburg policy committee debates striking six-week enrollment carve-out for absent students
Summary
The policy committee debated proposed edits to Policy 202 that would remove a previous six‑week carve-out allowing some students to remain enrolled while temporarily absent; administrators said the change closes loopholes and aligns the district with state attendance rules and other policies, while board members urged an appeals path for documented hardships.
The East Stroudsburg Area School District policy committee spent the bulk of its Nov. 17 meeting debating proposed revisions to Policy 202 that would remove a paragraph allowing some nonresident or temporarily absent students to remain enrolled for up to six weeks.
Speaker 2 (Administrator) told the committee the provision “predates the current applications of our policy” and is being exploited to keep students on the rolls when they are not residing in the district. Speaker 2 said McKinney‑Vento protections already cover students who are homeless or in foster care and that state regulations allow a district to disenroll students…
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