Senate panel weighs adding chronic-absence framework while keeping truancy as last resort
Agency of Education witnesses told the Senate Education Committee that adding a chronic-absence measure to law would allow earlier, supportive interventions while retaining truancy — a legal, last-resort tool for repeated unexcused absences. Lawmakers debated whether detailed categories should live in statute or an AOE model policy.
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Agency of Education officials told the Senate Education Committee that the attendance bill before them would pair the long-standing legal definition of truancy with a new chronic-absence measure designed to trigger early, nonpunitive interventions.
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