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Board debates changes to student attendance policy, emphasizes principal authority and equitable reporting
Summary
Board members reviewed a lengthy redline of Policy 7006 on student attendance, discussed acceptable reporting methods (district-approved systems), thresholds for 'excessive' absences (24 elementary/middle; 20 high-school), intervention steps, appeals to the superintendent, and concerns that some attendance incentives may be inequitable.
The Carmel Central School District policy committee spent the bulk of the meeting on a comprehensive rewrite of Policy 7006, the district’s student attendance policy. The board conducted a line-by-line review and flagged points that need clearer language and administrative procedures.
Unidentified Speaker 5 summarized the policy’s purpose: “The Board of Education establishes this comprehensive attendance policy in accordance with section 104.1(c) of the regulations of the commissioner of education,” and members discussed how to adapt the model language to local practice. The draft mirrors state…
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