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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of these comments are surprising to me.  I work at a DCPS in Ward 8 and close to 15% of our kids have 30+ absences. It's up to the school to decide what they consider excused or not.   Can someone who said unexcused absences get you kicked out of a school post a link to where that's a law?  In my experience, you'll get the CFSA call, attendance conference and maybe court referral but I don't think there is legal ground to loose your seat.  [/quote]

DCPS parent handbook: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS%20Parent%20Handbook_ENG-FINAL.pdf

See page 15: "If your child received a seat through the out-of-boundary lottery and has 10 unexcused absences or 20 unexcused tardies, they may be asked to return to their neighborhood school at the end of the school year."

Charters will have their own policies. The PCSB has a link on their website to an attendance and truancy policy but it's a dead link. It's definitely up to principal discretion and I know that at our school, OOB students with more than 10 unexcused absences have been told that they cannot reenroll the following year.[/quote]

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