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School board clears state‑required attendance edits, sends parent‑excuse questions to policy committee
Summary
The Katy Perry School Board executive committee agreed to adopt statutory language changes to attendance and child‑abuse policies but referred concerns about limiting parent‑written excuses (three per semester) and child‑performer absences to the policy committee for a November meeting.
The Katy Perry School Board executive committee on Oct. 21 moved to accept language changes to several policies required by recent state legislation while referring further questions about parent‑written excuses and child‑performer absences to the policy committee.
Board member Miss McLean asked that proposed revisions to policy JBD (attendance and excuses) be discussed in depth by the policy committee rather than finalized at Tuesday’s executive session. “I would like you to show me that data in the committee meeting when we potentially move this item to committee,” Miss McLean said, pressing staff for empirical support for…
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