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Arlington to grant extra personal day after unitwide attendance recalculation
Summary
After a months-long reconciliation of absence records, the school committee approved granting Unit A an additional personal day after district calculations indicated the unit exceeded the 95% attendance threshold used in the contract.
The Arlington School Committee approved an additional unitwide personal day for AEA Unit A after the superintendent presented a detailed recalculation of staff attendance for the 2025–26 school year.
Dr. Homan, the superintendent, described the district’s methodology for computing the unit attendance rate, noting contractual exclusions (for example, jury/military duty, certain professional days, and documented family-illness exceptions) and data reconciliations between the Frontline reporting system and Munis payroll accruals. "We're at 95 o 5%," Dr. Homan said, summarizing the district’s result after manual review and correction of earlier discrepancies.
Dr. Homan told the committee that last year’s implementation included calculation errors that were discovered and that staff developed a calculator and manual checks this year to produce a more accurate figure. Committee members asked for breakdowns of professional-development and unpaid personal days and pressed for clarity on how serious-family-illness days are counted; Dr. Homan and HR staff said those instances are tracked and can be reclassified when documentation is provided.
A motion to grant the additional personal day for Unit A was moved, seconded and approved by roll-call during the meeting. Dr. Homan said the Unit D analysis will be completed and presented at the first meeting of the school year.
