Attendance and Engagement: Pages

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California Education Code (searchable)

Attendance Works is a nationally recognized initiative that advances better policies and practices to improve school attendance. Attendance Works promotes equal opportunities to learn and advances student success by reducing chronic absence. As a non-profit initiative, Attendance Works collaborates with schools, districts, states, communities, and organizations to ensure that everyone recognizes chronic absence as a serious issue that can be addressed using a positive, problem-solving approach grounded in an understanding of educational inequities. Objectives include building public awareness and support for evidence-based strategies, encouraging proven and innovative practices, facilitating peer learning, and advancing policies that improve attendance.

Click the link above for a plethora of resources for positive engagement and capacity building as well as actionable data tools and research related to attendance for evidence-based solutions.

California Department of Education Resources

Educational Options Office
Equity Branch
California Department of Education
1430 N Street, Suite 4202
Sacramento, CA 95814

Educational Program Consultants:
Dan Sackheim
dsackheim@cde.ca.gov

Questions about child welfare and attendance, email CWA@cde.ca.gov
Information about child welfare and attendance and duties of supervisors of attendance
Information about School Attendance Review Boards (SARB)
Questions about exit codes and chronic absenteeism rates in CALPADS, email calpads@cde.ca.gov
Questions about attendance accounting, email attendanceaccounting@cde.ca.gov
Questions about Independent Study, email independentstudy@cde.ca.gov
Questions about responding to COVID-19, email COVID-19@cde.ca.gov
Guidance on Executing Attendance Recovery Programs and Attendance Recovery FAQs