HI HCR79

Board of Education must require each school community council to review its school's attendance policy, establish benchmarks to improve attendance, and develop an implementation plan to meet those benchmarks.

Board of Education must report to the Senate Committee on Education and House Committee on Education on the progress of each school community council no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2013.

Representatives from school community councils must report to the Legislature on accomplishments in meeting improved student attendance benchmarks no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2014.

Resolution addresses the issue that some schools report more than fifteen percent of students missing fifteen or more days of school per year, which severely affects student learning.

Certified copies must be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Education.