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Board reviews attendance exemptions and part-time enrollment policies; trustees seek wording to avoid implying enforcement powers

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board (work session) · November 25, 2025
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Summary

The board discussed new exemptions-from-attendance policies and a part-time enrollment crosswalk, asking administrators to change wording that implies the district can 'enforce' compulsory attendance and to instead say the district 'supports' or 'follows' state compulsory attendance laws; administrators will check statutory language and return revised wording.

Miss Dillard presented new draft policies that collect statutory exemptions from compulsory attendance and crosswalk part-time enrollment language to existing district policies (5111.2 and 5112.1/5112.2).

She noted statutory exemptions include many categories (attendance at federal schools, custody by law enforcement, temporary illness, completion of twelfth grade, among…

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