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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.
Cheree Peoples, a Black mother in California, was charged with a criminal misdemeanor under California’s truancy law in 2013 because her 11-year-old daughter, who has sickle cell anemia, missed ...
Meanwhile, Michigan's third grade reading law now no longer requires holding back students who fail a reading proficiency test. Contact Clara Hendrickson at chendrickson@freepress.com or 313-296-5743.
Michigan was the only state of the 23 with written informed consent materials that did not require abortion providers to give patients information about abortion alternatives. [12] In 2013, state Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) law applied to medication induced abortions in addition to abortion clinics. [13]
The law is written so that the scores of students with IEPs (Individualized Education Plans) and 504 plans are counted just as other students' scores are counted. [ citation needed ] Schools have argued against having disabled populations involved in their AYP measurements because they claim that there are too many variables involved.
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The PROTECT Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–21 (text), 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children.
The new truancy law was signed in May and went into effect in July. Senate File 2435 outlines guidelines for districts to follow to lower the rate of chronic absenteeism. Under the law, a student ...