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Petersburg board reviews stricter attendance rules, task force urges recovery and support options
Summary
The Petersburg City School Board reviewed task-force recommendations to strengthen attendance regulations, including automatic addition to attendance teams after five absences, a recovery-time policy (three hours recoup one day) and potential denial of credit for excessive absences. Members pressed staff for clearer implementation steps and safeguards for students.
The Petersburg City School Board heard a detailed presentation March 4 on proposed revisions to the district’s attendance regulations that would give schools new tools to address chronic absenteeism while also offering recovery options for students.
Superintendent Brown said the attendance task force recommended changes intended to reduce the district’s chronic-absence rate by 3 percent by the end of the school year. "Petersburg City Public Schools is very serious and very focused on chronic absenteeism," Brown told the board during the presentation and introduced a set of regulatory changes for the board's consideration.
The administration’s proposals included several concrete steps: students who are absent five consecutive or nonconsecutive days would be added to a school attendance team caseload for individualized intervention; schools must implement an attendance-recovery strategy, and the…
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