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LA HR180
Resolution
Status
6/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Barbara Freiberg
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AI Summary
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Creates a 16-member study group to examine truancy and whether Louisiana should change its school funding formula from two annual student counts (February and October) to an average daily attendance methodology used by other states.
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Members include representatives from BESE, child welfare attendance officers, school social workers, counselors, principals, superintendents from both rural and urban districts, charter schools, and the East Baton Rouge Parish truancy assessment center.
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Report must address advantages and disadvantages of attendance-based funding, strategies to increase attendance, ways to reduce chronic absences, and improvements to parent communication especially for English Language Learners.
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BESE staff will assist the study group, and the president of BESE or designee will serve as a member.
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Written report due to the House Committee on Education and BESE by February 1, 2026, at which point the study group terminates.
Legislative Description
Creates a study group to study truancy, including potentially adjusting the student count methodology used in the public school funding formula in the effort to address truancy
STUDENT/SCH ATTENDANCE
Last Action
Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
6/4/2025