- 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 |