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Attendance committee presses Infinite Campus expert on codes and approves front-office survey to probe chronic absenteeism
Summary
The Elko County School District attendance committee questioned district Infinite Campus capabilities and coding practices with expert Josh Farmer, flagged high unexcused-absence counts, and voted to distribute a revised survey to front-office staff to better understand barriers and improve attendance procedures.
The attendance committee of the Elko County School District on March 11 pressed district staff about how attendance is recorded and approved a survey for front-office staff to diagnose chronic absenteeism.
The committee shifted its agenda to hear from Josh Farmer, introduced by the chair as “the Infinite Campus expert,” who told members some odd attendance tallies likely reflect site-level miscoding rather than system rules. “EMG is hardly ever used,” Farmer said, adding that in many cases a small number of students marked with emergency-closure codes indicated a coding issue at the site level rather than a campus-wide closure. He also explained that EMI, “exempt missed instruction,” is used when a student is on campus but removed from an instructional setting (for example, in the nurse’s office), while suspensions and homebound instruction are coded differently.
Teachers and building staff described operational problems they see daily. A high-school teacher who…
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