Student absences will be verified through written
or verbal communication from the parent or guardian
through persons authorized to accept such
verification:
administrators, counselors, teachers, school
nurse, and classified employees working with
pupil personnel attendance services
Note: Students eighteen years and
older have the authority to provide their own
verification.
Legal Reference:
Education Code
1740 Employment of personnel to supervise attendance
(county superintendent)
37201 School month
37228- Weekend classes
41601 Reports of average daily attendance
46000 Records (attendance)
46010-46015 Absences
46100-46118 Attendance in kindergarten and elementary
schools
46140-46147 Attendance in junior high and high
schools
46500-46502 Attendance of physically handicapped
pupils
46510-46513 Attendance of educational handicapped
pupils
48200 Children between ages of 6 and 16 years
(compulsory full-time attendance)
48205 Absence for justifiable personal reasons
48240 et seq. Supervisors of attendance
48260-48273 Truants
48292 Filing complaint against parent
48320-48324 School Attendance Review Boards
48340 et seq. Improvement of pupil attendance
48342 Annual disclosure of actual pupil attendance
rates in district
48342.5 Disclosure of pupil attendance rates;
certification
49067(b) Unexcused absences as cause for failing
grade
Administrative Code:
Title 306 Explanation of absence
Policy Adopted: October 24,
1973
