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Superintendent flags issues with state staff attendance data and urges committee review of town financial report
Summary
In the superintendent's report, district leaders said DESE's public attendance figures can be misleading because they do not exclude long approved leaves; the superintendent urged care in interpreting the data and asked that the committee be given the town's Collins financial report for review before any vote; he also updated the committee on Stoughton Academy planning.
During the superintendent’s report, the district’s chief executive discussed two governance issues that members raised at the meeting: state attendance data and a town‑commissioned financial review known locally as the Collins report.
The superintendent said DESE has resumed public release of student and staff attendance data and noted the district ‘‘feels very comfortable about our data’’ while expressing concern about how the state’s published numbers treat paid leaves. He read into the record a definition the district used to decide what counts as an absence for staff (personal days, sick days, jury duty, bereavement, paid maternity/paternity leave and unpaid leave), and said that, in his view, the…
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