Posted on November 7, 2006 at 04:55:23 AM by Jaime Kenedeno
CCISD & Texas Education Code
Issues to address
Attendance Policy: Is less responsive than the Broomfield Days. Students skipping during the middle schedule of the day attendance informs the parent residence via automated message informing whoever answers, "Your child was absent for one or more periods today."
Why is there no follow up?
Should not the Assistant Principal send a little slip the next morning for the student to come to the office and explain the irregularities? Before modern technology?
Work Completion Enforcement: Complete all work or stay until it is finished or Parent signs student out.
Dear Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CCISD, Legislators & South Texas Judiciary Attention:
In an agressive collateral campaign in advocacy of South Texas as a Whole; the issue of Education must be for the children (our future). I submit in good faith my "TWO CENTS" (Dos Centavos). The items addressed will fall in 3 categories; legislation, quality assurance and the Judiciary Evolution.
Legislation - Students need to be able to earn and get paid weekly. WIA JOB Grants attendance selective railroading must cease immediately. It is a racket of cushy JOBS and truant officers who cannot discourage even the skipping in the middle of the school day. I remember MR Gonzalez (GONZO) at Carroll High School back in the days of punch card bubble in "chad like" attendance cards. Student office workers picked up the cards every period and they were processed immediately. Any irregularities were addressed AND Gonzo, Mr Lyons & Mr Mon were on patrol with the cutting edge in technology Walkie Talkies. Not one other school in CCISD had them at that time. Janitors were the security. My point is where is the lag and why now that this area has been significantly beefed up. How are these kids tardy or hiding out or coming and going without someone noticing. Then they file against the parent for contributing to truancy and the student is fined and the parent has no defense even if there was never any communication from the district informing the parent. No attorney is provided as the crime is punishable by fine only. WATT about the people who cant pay? I have watched JAG lock students and parents up. 1 student $500, 2 Parents $500 each equals $1500. Community Service is an option but is it worth the association with hardened Juveniles. If there is a chance of being jailed an attorney must be provided. Any appeal is denied and handed back without signature of Court. There is no transcript of the proceedings so strong arm tactics are practiced and rules are ignored to get rich off of the poor. quality assurance Judiciary Evolution incomplete work in progress
Dear Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CCISD, Legislators & South Texas Judiciary
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CSHB 316 extends the powers and duties for a peace officer who is not serving as an attendance officer. The expanded powers and duties include enforcing compulsory school attendance, serving court ordered legal process, making home visits or contacting a parent of a student in violation of the compulsory school requirements, and taking a student into custody with permission of the student's parent or in compliance of a court-ordered legal process.
An offense is committed if the individual is required to attend school under current compulsory school attendance regulations and fails to attend school on seven or more days within a three-month period in the same school year or three or more days within a four-week period. A school district or open-enrollment charter school is required to notify a parent in writing at the beginning of the school year that should a student be absent from school on seven or more days within a three-month period in the same school year or on three or more days within a four-week period the parent is subject to prosecution and the student is subject to prosecution or to referral to a juvenile court if applicable. A school district is required to notify the parent by telephone and writing if the student is absent from school, without an excuse, on three days within a four-week period. The notice is to inform the parent as to the parent's duty to monitor the student's attendance and that the parent is subject to prosecution. Additionally, the notice requires the parent to attend a conference with school officials to discuss absences, to develop a plan for improving the student's school attendance and to review legal consequences for a student's continued unexcused absences. A counselor is to be notified and assess the student's unexcused absences. If a student fails to attend school without an excuse on seven or more days within a three-month period in the same school year, a school district is required to file a complaint against the student or the student's parent or both in accordance with the law, or refer the student to juvenile court indicating a need for supervision.
A school district is required to notify the parent by telephone and writing if the student is absent from school, without an excuse, on three days within a four-week period.
Additionally, the notice requires the parent to attend a conference with school officials to discuss absences, to develop a plan for improving the student's school attendance and to review legal consequences for a student's continued unexcused absences.
A counselor is to be notified and assess the student's unexcused absences.
The substitute includes language for a student failing to attend school without an excuse with designated time periods and the actions the school district must take not later than the 10th day after the date of the student's last absence.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79R/analysis/html/HB00316H.htm
the district's average daily attendance for purposes of
receipt of state funds under the Foundation School Program
Student Attendance Accounting Handbook
- describes the Foundation School Program (FSP) eligibility requirements of all students;
- prescribes the minimum standards for all attendance accounting systems, whether manual or automated;
- lists the documentation requirements for attendance audit purposes;
- specifies the minimum standards for systems that are entirely functional without the use of paper; and
- details the responsibilities of all district personnel involved in student attendance accounting.
FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM. The foundation school program was established by the Gilmer-Aikin Lawsqv in 1949. The state distributes funds from the Available School Fundqv to local school districts through the two-tiered program. Tier One of the FSP provides funds to meet the costs of basic education programs that meet state accreditation standards. Tier Two provides schools with equal access to revenue for educational enrichment. Both tiers contain a state and local share, with the latter depending on the property wealth of each district. Under Tier One of FSP, additional funding is made available to school districts for special, vocational, compensatory, bilingual, and gifted and talented programs. In 1993 the state spent close to $7 billion on the public schools. This constituted roughly 48 percent of revenues generated for public schools. The remaining $7.1 billion came from local tax revenues.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Legislative Budget Board, Fiscal Size-up of Texas State Services, 1992-1993 Biennium (Austin, 1993). Rae Files Still, The Gilmer-Aikin Bills (Austin: Steck, 1950).
Tracé Etienne-Gray
WITNESS LIST
HB 316
HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT
Public Education Committee
March 22, 2005 - 2:00P or upon final adjourn./recess
For: Bull, Raymond H. (Self)
Against: Becerra, Benjamin J. (Self)
Beneski, Amy (Tx Association of School Administrators)
Fette, Claudette (Self)
Keobouth, Kerensa (Self)
Rachofsky, Marcia C. (Texas Mental Health Consumers and
Youth and Family Alliance, Inc. (Life Works))
Silva, Jessica (Self)
Tod, Theresa (Texas Network of Youth Services)
Uhr, Pam (Self and ACLU of TX)
Winkler, Sarah (Self and Alief ISD; Texas Association of
School Boards)
On: Ridgway, Judge Russ (Self and Alief Independent School
District as Resource Witness)
WITNESS LIST
HB 316
SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT
Education Committee
May 17, 2005 - 8:30A
ON: Beneski, Amy Assoc. Executive Director, Govermental
Relations (Texas Association of School
Administrators), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Oliver, Harold Gov't Relations Consultant (Assoc. of
Substance Abuse Providers), Austin, TX
May 19, 2005 - 8:30A
FOR: Collins, Robby Consultant (DISD Public Schools),
Dallas, TX
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