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Committee member proposes narrow amendment to truancy bill to tighten homeschool notifications
Summary
A committee member offered a late amendment to H.930 that would require the Agency of Education to notify resident superintendents when a student enrolls in home study and to ensure the Department for Children and Families is alerted if there are documented or ongoing child‑welfare, educational‑neglect or truancy concerns.
A committee member proposed a late amendment to H.930, the absenteeism (truancy) bill, asking that the Agency of Education provide notice of a home‑study enrollment application to the student’s resident superintendent and that the superintendent and the Department for Children and Families be notified if there are documented and unresolved concerns related to child welfare, educational neglect or truancy.
The amendment — described by the committee member as narrow — would insert notice requirements into section 7(a)(1) of the bill’s enrollment provisions. "This amendment would just ask that the ... the secretary or designee shall provide notice of the enrollment application to the superintendent…
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