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Florida’s chronic school absenteeism demands an all hands on deck response, and that needs to start at the top. | Opinion Late New Year’s resolution for Florida: Keep your kids in school | Opinion
Over 13,000 kids in Leon County schools miss over 10% of school, the standard for chronic absenteeism. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
The statewide average of the number of students missing 21 or more days of school has hit a record high at 20.9%, according to data from the Florida Department of Education from the 2021-22 school ...
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.
An act relating to parental rights in education; amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; requiring district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying a student's parent of specified information; requiring such procedures to reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children in a specified ...
Wright, 430 U.S. 651 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the disciplinary corporal punishment policy of Florida's public schools by a 5-4 vote. The Court also held that the Eighth Amendment did not apply to corporal punishment, and that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did require notice or a hearing ...
In comparison to data from the 2021-22 school year, the FDOE report released for the 2022-23 school year shows a drop in absenteeism for the state, but an increase for Leon County.
The Stop WOKE Act, also known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act and redubbed the Individual Freedom Act, is a Florida state law which prohibited schools and businesses from teaching certain concepts related to race, gender, racism, and privilege. In addition to that, it prohibits Florida educational institutions and businesses ...