Clean & Safe DfES draft guidance for Local Education Authorities and schools covers parenting orders and contracts arising from truancy and exclusion from school, and http://www.cleansafeworldwide.org/doc.asp?doc=1232&cat=26
Regulation 5-17.1 - School And Class Attendance--Grades K-12 Absences/truancy school and Class Attendance Grades K-12 Students are contact with parent; referral to the guidance counselor or school social worker http://www.vbschools.com/policies/5-17_1r.html
Extractions: Students are expected to be in school, in class, and ready for instruction. Daily and punctual school attendance is essential to each student's academic development. Absence from school is detrimental to student achievement. A student is counted present for state reporting purposes if present for any portion of the day. As required under the provisions of law, each parent/guardian is responsible for regular and punctual attendance of any child in his or her charge within the compulsory age for school attendance. Emancipated students are responsible for their own regular and punctual attendance. Parents and emancipated students are expected to work cooperatively with school personnel to correct attendance problems, including meetings with teachers, counselors, or administrators. Each member of a school's faculty is expected to avoid causing a student to be tardy or absent from a colleague's class. If a student is tardy or absent because of being detained by a faculty member, he/she will be considered excused and the absence will not be included in the count for excessive absences. Students shall not be in an unauthorized area of the school without prior permission, and shall not leave a classroom, building, or assigned area without proper permission. Students who do not comply with this section will be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the Code of Student Conduct and Discipline Guidelines.
Four Components related concerns tardiness absences truancy misbehavior schoolavoidance drop-out Areas Addressed guidance program development Parent education http://www.tea.state.tx.us/guidance/components.html
RIROE - Services The Developmental guidance Model is a program that is proactive and preventive Our objective is to assist schools and families with truancy, school safety, gang http://www.riroe.k12.il.us/riroe/services.html
Extractions: Home Calendar Mail Server Prof Develop Update ... Site Map Services Provided Listing of Services provided by RIROE Some services provided by RIROE: Administrators Academy The ROE serves as the primary source for delivery and coordination of the activities of the Illinois Administrators Academy. Professional Development on School Improvement, total quality management, sexual harassment, strategic planning, new technology, conflict management, and other topics of current interest. Developmental Education - Educators today are faced with the challenging task of helping students acquire new skills and knowledge while also developing decision making and problem solving abilities which enable them to be increasingly independent, responsible and prepared for career decisions. To help students grow more independent and responsible, the developmental guidance philosophy and model were created. The Developmental Guidance Model is a program that is proactive and preventive. It includes a life skills curriculum aimed at helping students develop skills in decision making, coping, setting goals, maintaining satisfying relationships and assuming personal responsibility for their lives. Its goal is to enable all students to realize their full potential in their chosen careers.
Extractions: Recognizing the correlation between dropouts and truancy, the Truancy Project uses a prevention-intervention model to support youth and families in the region and increase school graduation. The intervention model is a systems approach designed to help schools, parents and youth identify the issues resulting in truancy and create solutions and support systems to change behavior. Working together, a community intervention team and the family address the truant behavior in a way that is supportive, inclusive and consistent. The process begins with a letter sent to the parents/guardians when a youth has five unexcused absences. In the letter, the entire procedure is communicated to the family and youth, with clear expectations for improved attendance and consequences for continued truancy. Should attendance improve following the letter, no further action is necessary. Continued unexcused absence for two more days (a total of seven) triggers a second letter with a date and time set for the family to meet with the intervention team. Local community service providers along with the team, the youth and the family develop a plan that will keep the youth in school, help make up missed school work and identify outside supports for the family if necessary. Failure on the part of the family to attend the meeting and continued unexcused absences of more than ten days results in the school referring the case to Social Rehabilitation Services (SRS) and the States Attorneys office for court action. (Note: Because representatives of SRS and law enforcement are part of the community team and process, SRS and court action become real consequences for these youth.) However, the emphasis of the project is to successfully intervene to prevent legal action. Families encounter substantial support through the initial intervention and often see schools as a meaningful resource for the first time. The overriding goal is a successful intervention that will help keep the youth in school.
2003/0132 Affairs and the Magistrates Association to publish new detailed guidance on tackling truancy and ensuring regular school attendance. The guidance will help http://www.gnn.gov.uk/gnn/national.nsf/0/7AEEA1B97D5731F780256D57003CD86A?opendo
YOUTHLAW Tino Rangatiratanga Taitamariki - Welcome You may like to ask the guidance counsellor to explain their rules about Non Enrolment truancy Service. NETS help students who have been out of school for long http://www.youthlaw.co.nz/school/b12.shtml
Extractions: please contact us. YOUTHLAW - Tino Rangatiratanga Taitamariki (Last updated Dec 01) Who is likely to question me? Do I have to answer their questions? Can I have someone with me when I am questioned? Can I be held out of class or detained for questioning? ... Further Information It is likely that at some stage during your time at school you will be questioned by teachers, senior school staff such as the principal) or other adults (such as a guidance counsellor). Most of the time this will be to do with day-to-day school activities such as school-work or your attendance. In these cases it will be reasonable for you to answer. However, there may be times when you are questioned at school about a serious incident. You may be taken out of class and kept in the principals office. You could face suspension or stand-down. You may be asked questions about crimes, such as drug-use or theft. A police officer may even come to school to question you about these things. In these cases you have some basic legal rights that are important for you to know. This information sheet will explain your legal rights if you happen to find yourself in this situation.
Truancy - Attendance Improvement (CA Dept Of Education) laws is to provide intensive guidance to meet the The law provides schools and school districts with discretion regarding student penalties for truancy as long http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ai/tr/
Extractions: The California Legislature defined a truant in very precise language. In summary, it states that a student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year must be classified as a truant and reported to the proper school authority. This classification and referral helps emphasize the importance of school attendance and is intended to help minimize interference with instruction. The Education Code Section that defines a truant reads as follows: Education Code Section 48260 (a): Any pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or compulsory continuation education who is absent from school without a valid excuse three full days or tardy or absent more than any 30-minute period during the school day without a valid excuse on three occasions in one school year, or any combination thereof, is a truant and shall be reported to the attendance supervisor or the superintendent of the school district.
Archives: Story the Hmong community and supportive of school administrators efforts to address underlying issues of truancy. . UWStout and was a guidance director and http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2004/05/11/news/news02.txt
Extractions: Judge Stewart traveled to Green Bay Wednesday to accept the Bert Grover Child Advocacy Award from the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators. Photo by Jim Kleinhans/Dunn County News By Jim Kleinhans, Editor Dunn County Circuit Judge William C. Stewart, Jr., has been honored by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA). At its annual education conference in Green Bay Wednesday, WASDA presented Stewart with its Bert Grover Child Advocacy Award for 2004. According to WASDA executive director Miles Turner, the award was created in 1992 to "recognize an individual or agency that has exhibited extraordinary dedication to the cause of child advocacy" in Wisconsin. Stewart was selected because of his "past and current dedication to children." In his acceptance speech, Judge Stewart said that he has been advocating and doing things for kids for a long time, citing his work at UW-Stout and as a school guidance counselor. Stewart told those in attendance that nothing that works for kids is magic. "Our truancy program is not magic, but a commitment from many individuals," he stressed.
BBC News | Education | Tackling Truancy We must crack down on truancy and classroom The guidance we are issuing today for consultation shows Keeping children in school and off the streets helps stop http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_260000/260076.stm
Extractions: Sue Littlemore: "Many schools say that they will find the new process difficult to handle" (BBC Six O'Clock News) The School Standards Minister, Estelle Morris, announced a £65m package of measures to reduce truancy and disruptive behaviour in the classroom - and, it is hoped, the knock-on effects on crime and unemployment. The money is the first year's allocation of £500m announced by the education secretary in his speech to the Labour Party Conference last October. One scheme: electronic registration ... Almost two-thirds of school-age offenders are persistent truants or excluded from school, a pattern the minister hopes her initiatives will break. One aspect that has brought scepticism from teachers' unions is that schools are being "strongly recommended" not to delay in contacting parents when a child fails to turn up for school without explanation. The advice is published a few days after two girls in East Sussex disappeared after failing to arrive at school, although their parents did not find out about their absence until the end of the school day. ... lets schools contact parents of persistent truants ... The Department for Education now "strongly recommends" that if a pupil is absent without explanation when the register is called in the morning, the school should wherever possible contact the parents that same day. It says research shows this sort of policy can improve attendance by up to 10%.
National Assembly For Wales: Subject Index: Education & Training 1.4 The guidance also builds on the Social Exclusion Units Report on truancy and school Exclusion. The commitment to implement http://www.wales.gov.uk/subieducationtraining/content/circulars/0399/0399-sectio
Extractions: 1.1 The White Paper "Building Excellent School Together" (BEST) emphasises that raising educational standards and tackling under-achievement is at the heart of Government policy. BEST also makes it clear that the commitment to raising standards applies to all children including those who are socially excluded or are in danger of becoming so. 1.3 The National Assembly supports efforts to reduce absence and exclusion. Amongst other things it seeks to work in partnership to: enable the lowest performing schools to raise standards;
Saskatchewan JobFutures school and guidance counsellers are generally responsible for counselling students on course selection, school adjustment, truancy, study habits and career http://saskjobfutures.ca/profiles/profile.cfm?noc=4143&lang=e&site=graphic
Essential Documents - Managing Your School - NCSL 97, school leaving date for 16 year olds, DfEE 70/2001. The Common Transfer Form guidance on transfer of pupils records, Attendance. DfES 1999. Tackling truancy http://www.ncsl.org.uk/index.cfm?pageID=managing-docs-index
Extractions: This document is an archival file for historical purposes only. It may contain non-working links. For current publications and resources, see http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/publications.html The report School Associated Violent Deaths 1994-1999 was published in the December 5, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report finds that although school-associated violent deaths remain rare events, they have occurred often enough to allow for the detection of patterns and the identification of potential risk factors. This information may help schools respond to this problem. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service offers an online resource that provides information on school safety, bullying, conflict resolution, security and other school-related issues. SafeUSA hosted Mobilizing for a SafeUSA, a conference focusing on reducing violence and injury in America, December 3-5, 2001. The topics that this conference addressed include school safety, building safe communities, violence and suicide prevention, preventing motor vehicle injuries and more. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided a free webcast of the event. The URL of the webcast is:
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Panel: More Counselors Are Needed at middle schools and making sure every alternative school has a guidance counselor is among and ninth graders are causing most of the truancy problems and http://www.abss.k12.nc.us/system/news/counselors.html
Borough Last To Get New Truancy Centers has a staff of outreach workers and guidance counselors to said most kids are simply taken back to school. whole city to be involved in the truancy issue, she http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/bronxbeat/2001/051401/truancy0514_01.sht
Extractions: By Caroline Howard May 14, 2001 On a summery day last week, St. Mary's Park was a magnet for young people out to enjoy the weather. A group of boys fielded softballs while a couple of girls swayed to the music of a Walkman at a nearby picnic table. The only trouble was, at 11 a.m., these children should have been in school. About this time every year, when the thermometer tops 70 degrees, schools and police launch a concerted effort to combat spring-fever truancy. But the city's latest strategy to keep a lid on truancy - a "way station" for kids playing hooky - scheduled to open in Castle Hill, has been delayed in the borough until the fall. The long-standing approach to truancy, police drop-offs at schools, will continue for the remainder of the school year and through summer school. The city's new strategy, named TRACK, or Truancy Reduction Alliance to Contact Kids, goes one step further. After police round ups, students are brought directly to TRACK centers, where they must wait until a parent or attendance officer returns them to school. Social workers also meet with the family, make counseling referrals and track students' subsequent attendance records.
Excelsior - What's New for Constitutional Affairs and the Magistrates Association to publish new detailed guidance on tackling truancy and ensuring regular school attendance. http://www.excelsior.pwcglobal.com/knowledge/article.asp?artID=1867
Attendance And Absence In Schools 2002-2003 1/95 and 10/95 gave specific guidance to schools where attendance is otherwise unsatisfactory; truancy, defined as unauthorised absence from school, for any http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2003/12/SEED389.aspx
Extractions: Home Topics About News ... Help TODAY News THIS WEEK Broadcast News Weekly Review Media Briefing Ministers Online ... Ministers in the Media NEWS ARCHIVE This week's news Last week's news Or search the news archive for: EXECUTIVE EXTRA Main page JUNIOR EXEC Main Page NEWS BY TOPIC Agriculture Communities Economy Environment ... Young People SUBSCRIBE TO NEWS Register here for regular e-mail updates CONTACTS Newsdesk Other Areas The latest data on attendance and absence in Scottish schools is published today by the Executive's Education Department. Attendance and absence information is provided to the Executive by local authorities and managers of grant-aided schools. Summary information for local authorities and for Scotland is shown. The main findings are: Total rate of absence for primary schools in 2002/3 was 5.1 per cent. This was slightly higher than in 2001/02, but lower than in most recent years. Total rate of absence for secondary schools in 2002/3 was 10.8 per cent. This was a decrease from 11.1 per cent in 2001/02 and was the lowest rate in recent years.
School Attendance, Truancy Sweeps truancy Sweeps. Everyday over 50,000 pupils miss a day of school without permission and estimated 7.5 million school days are missed each year through truancy. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolattendance/truancysweeps/index.cfm
Extractions: Young People Employers Higher Education LEAs ... Teachers search the site You are in Home Truancy Sweeps FAQs Press Notices Useful Links Contact Us ... Research Truancy Sweeps Everyday over 50,000 pupils miss a day of school without permission and estimated 7.5 million school days are missed each year through truancy. Research shows that these children who are not in school are most vulnerable and are easily drawn into crime and anti-social behaviour and more likely to be unemployed after leaving school. Youth Justice MORI survey of young people 2002 shows that those who play truant are more likely to offend than those that do not, with two-thirds (65%) of truants having offended versus less than a third (30%) of those who have not played truant.
