Policy Workshop - March 10, 2026

Pittsburgh SD Board (policy workshop) · March 10, 2026

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Attendance policy: compulsory attendance, habitually truant definition, and limits on cyber-charter transfers

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Presenter (Miss Satler) reviewed changes tied to a November 2025 school-code change: a student is considered truant after three unexcused days; the district must provide notice to the parent or person in parental relation within 10 days of the third unexcused absence and in the person’s preferred language; 'habitually truent' is defined as six or more unexcused days; effective January 2026 under Act 47 of 2025, habitually truant students are barred from transferring to private cyber charter schools during the school year unless a judge finds the transfer is in the student’s best interest (the

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Pittsburgh SD held a policy workshop in March 2026 to review revisions to attendance, weapons reporting, public-records, curriculum-adoption procedures and related policy language; board members asked clarifying questions about notification timing and wording and scheduled quarterly policy workshops.

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