A plan shall be developed for a student who is declared habitually truant with the goal of assisting the student to remain in school. To the extent possible, the student's parent/guardian shall participate with District personnel, including, as appropriate, the District's designated attendance officer, to develop the plan. Appropriate school personnel shall make all reasonable efforts to meet with the parent/guardian to review and evaluate the reasons for the student's truancy and to develop strategies to address the reasons for the student's truancy.
To reduce incidents of truancy, parents/guardians of all students shall be notified in either writing or electronically at the beginning of each school year of their obligation to ensure that all students of compulsory attendance age attend school. Parents/guardians shall be required to acknowledge either in writing or electronically awareness of their obligations and to furnish the school with a telephone number, email address, or other means of contacting them during the school day.
All District schools shall establish a system of monitoring individual excused and unexcused absences. When a student fails to report on a regularly scheduled school day and school personnel have received no indication that the parent/guardian is aware of the absence, school personnel or their designees shall make a reasonable effort to notify the parent/guardian by telephone, text message, or email.
In accordance with law, the District may impose appropriate penalties that relate directly to classes missed while truant. Penalties may include a warning, school detention, in-school suspension, or other alternative to suspension. Academic penalties, out-of-school suspensions and expulsion shall not be imposed for any truancy.
District administration shall develop regulations to implement nonexclusionary strategies and procedures to address truancy.
Originally Adopted: December 10, 2007
Last Revised: April 12, 2010
Current Revision: January 8, 2024
Adoption Date: December 10, 2007
Last Revised: January 08, 2024
| Cross References: | IHBG – Home Schooling |
| JEA – Compulsory Attendance Ages | |
| JH – Student Absences and Excuses | |
| JFC – Student Withdrawal from School/Dropouts | |
| Legal References: | C.R.S. § 22-14-101, et. seq. (dropout prevention and student re-engagement) |
| C.R.S. § 22-32-109(1)(p) (requirement to appoint an attendance officer) | |
| C.R.S. § 22-33-204 (compulsory school attendance) | |
| C.R.S. § 22-33-105 (suspension, expulsion and denial of admission) | |
| C.R.S. § 22-33-107 (enforcement of compulsory school attendance) | |
| C.R.S. § 22-33-108 (judicial proceedings to enforce school attendance laws) | |
| 1 CCR 301-78 Rules 1.00 et. seq. (standardized calculation for counting student attendance and truancy) | |