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Board debates attendance enforcement after 34 referrals to prosecutors; motion would require board review before referral
Summary
Board members and staff sparred over attendance-notification practices after central office data showed 34 family referrals to prosecutors. Questions centered on whether letters and success-team meetings occurred before escalation; a board member proposed presenting families to the board in closed session before referral.
The Hannibal Public Schools Board spent more than an hour examining its attendance and truancy procedures after central-office data showed 34 families had been referred to the prosecuting attorney this school year.
Board member (speaker 4) said the referrals raised questions about whether the district followed its written escalation process — which calls for a sequence of step-1, step-2 and step-3 letters, building-level interventions and, if necessary, a level-up meeting involving the juvenile office and children’s division — before sending cases to prosecutors. “It’s kind of serious business when you wind up referring people to prosecutors,” the member said, noting a discrepancy between 136 letters that would have been expected under a four-letter-per-referral…
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