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Committee approves truancy and child-abuse reporting policies; immunization and curriculum-review items deferred

Utah State Board of Education - USDB Standing Committee · March 18, 2026
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Summary

The committee approved attendance/truancy and child-abuse reporting policies (first reading, as amended) and deferred immunization and parent-review curriculum policies for further work; several technical edits and code-alignments were requested.

The USDB standing committee approved two additional policies on March 17 and deferred two others for further drafting.

Attendance and truancy prevention: Superintendent Patton presented a combined attendance-and-truancy policy aligned to Utah compulsory-education law (title 53G chapter 6 part 2 and R277-607). Members requested minor technical edits (placement of the valid-excuse list and alignment to statutory timeframes for parent notification); the committee…

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