ATTENDANCE AND CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES

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ATTENDANCE AND CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Robert Cuen

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Welcoming Environment

• Scrutinize Your School Attitude?
• Does it Discourage Attendance?
• Do we have hidden messages?
• ADA loss occurs when students are told
• Stay home, you dont need to take a final!
• Stay home, youve already failed!
• Stay home, you cause too much trouble!
• Stay home, we dont need you on campus during
  finals!
• Encourage students to attend on daily basis

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• Laws Related to Attendance Taking and Record
  Keeping

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E.C. 44809 Teacher Responsibility

• There shall be recorded in each state school
  register the absence and attendance of each pupil
  enrolled in the classes taught by the teacher
  keeping the register or on whose behalf the
  register is kept and any additional information
  required by the State Department of Education.

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• Recording of Attendance

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EC 46000 General Provisions

• Attendance in all schools and classes shall be
  recorded and kept according to regulations
  prescribed by the State Board of Education,
  subject to the provisions of this chapter (Stats.
  1976, Ch. 1010)

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C.C.R. Title 5 Section 15110 Reports by School
Districts

• The governing board of each applicable school
  district shall report information in accordance
  with instructions provided on forms furnished and
  prescribed by the Superintendent of Public
  Instruction for making the following
  determinations

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Reports List

• Such reports shall be filed with, and at the same
  time as, average daily attendance reports are
  required to be filed under the provisions of
  Education Code Section 41601 for the second
  period report for the Second Principal
  Apportionment. (Reg. 77, No. 39)

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E.C. 44030 Failure to Make Reports

• Any principal, teacher, employee, or school
  officer of any elementary or secondary school who
  refuses or willfully neglects to make such
  reports as are required by law is guilty of a
  misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not
  more than on hundred dollars (100). (Stats.
  1976, Ch. 1010., 1)

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California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

• Standards of Quality and Effectiveness for
  Prefessional Teacher Preparation Programs
• Standard 9b
• Each candidate uses computer applications to
  manage records (e.g. grade book, attendance and
  assessment records and to communicate through
  printed media..)
• Standard 16.2
• Develop and maintain student competency and
  records

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Secondary Teacher Responsibility

• California ED Code requires that secondary
  teachers verify the weekly attendance of each
  class at the end of the week
• TSO- Teacher Sign Off Report
• SIS- CL17
• ISIS- Teacher Sign Off
• 5 column class worksheet for all periods

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UTLA Contract

• Article IX- Hours, Duties and Work Year
• f. 4.0- Other Professional Duties
• Each employee is responsible not only for
  classroom dutiesfor which properly credentialed,
  but also for all related professional duties.
  Such professional duties includecommunicating
  and conferring with pupils, parents, staff and
  administrators maintaining appropriate records

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• ISIS

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ISIS DOCUMENTATION

• As per the ISIS Phase 1 Attendance Procedures
  Handbook, ISIS Attendance Responsibility Summary
  Chart it is the Responsibility of the Teacher/
  Substitute Teacher
• Complete Teacher Discrepancy Memo and return to
  the Attendance Office
• Electronically report attendance during first 15
  minutes of every period
• When necessary report attendance on paper rosters
  submit to Attendance Office each period
• Verify period-by-period attendance submission
• Verify, sign, date and return Teachers Sign-Off
  Report to Attendance Office (Mondays and end of
  term)

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• 1292 Attendance Procedures for Elementary and
  Secondary Schools

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Background

• Senate Bill (SB) 727 enacted July 1, 1998
  reimburses public schools for actual in-seat
  student attendance. The legislation also omits
  apportionment absences, (regardless of the
  reason for the absence) as a means of calculating
  attendance for reimbursement. State law provides
  that students who attend school during any part
  of the school day may generate state revenues, so
  long as they are not marked absent for the entire
  school day. p. 2
• Period-By-Period Attendance Accounting On July
  13, 2004 the LAUSD School Board authorized the
  Superintendent to restructure the manner in which
  student attendance is reported and to implement a
  system of period-by-period reporting at secondary
  schools. The period-by-period reporting is
  intended to improve accountability for each
  individuals students attendance, as well as to
  ensure the accuracy of the Districts actual
  attendance numbers.

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School Organization

• The school principal shall meet annually with
  attendance staff and other related personnel to
  develop, review and implement school-wide
  attendance practices consistent with the policies
  set forth in this bulletin and with Student
  Attendance Policy Bulletin No. 1287, October 26,
  2004.
• The principal is responsible for the
  registration, enrollment and attendance of all
  students at all schools under his or her
  supervision.
• Every school shall have a formal, written,
  proactive attendance plan for the improvement of
  student and staff attendance.