Every School Day Counts: The Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data - Appendix B: Differences in State Statutes Regarding Reasons for Student Absences

Every School Day Counts: The Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data

NCES 2009-804
February 2009

Task Force Members
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Attendance Codes Taxonomy Category Descriptions
Chapter 3: Common Challenges to Collecting Attendance Code Data and Effective Practices for Addressing These Challenges
Chapter 4: Acting on the Data
List of Tables & Figures
Appendix A: Attendance Codes by Reasons for Student Absences
Appendix B: Differences in State Statutes Regarding Reasons for Student Absences
Appendix C: Recent Publications from the National Forum on Education Statistics
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Appendix B: Differences in State Statutes Regarding Reasons for Student Absences

This chart highlights instances where state statutes differ in categorizing students as “present” and “absent.” The information is not exhaustive, and there may be additional examples not presented in the chart.

Reason	Considered present in state statute	Considered absent in state statute
Religious instruction	Indiana	Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Service on precinct election board or as a helper to a political candidate or party	Indiana, South Dakota	New Jersey
Work training, career education, career and technical education, vocational education, manual training program meeting the Department of Education’s educational standards	Arizona	Arkansas
4-H club educational activities	Kentucky	Arkansas
Parent/custodian is deployed to the armed forces or is returning from deployment	Kentucky	Georgia, Tennessee
Religious holiday	New Jersey, Texas	Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin

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