Timeline for Absence Intervention Teams

1. Triggering event – Student surpasses the threshold for unexcused absences for habitual truancy.  Certify will notify this school via a daily dashboard email if any students have had a triggering event.  
   
   
   

2. Within 7 days of the triggering event – The school shall select the members of an absence intervention team and shall make at least three good-faith attempts to secure parent participation on the team. If the parent responds but is unable to participate, the district shall inform the parent of the right to appear by designee. If the parent fails to respond, the district shall (1) investigate whether the failure to respond triggers mandatory reporting to children’s services and (2) instruct the absence intervention team to develop a plan notwithstanding the absence of the parent.
   
   
   

3. Within 10 days of the triggering event ­– The board of education shall assign a student who is considered a habitual truant to an absence intervention team. 
   
   
   

4. Within 14 days after assigning a student to an absence intervention team – The team shall develop an intervention plan. 
   
   
   

5. Within 7 days after development of the intervention plan – the district shall notify the student’s parents of the plan. 

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