Schools-compulsory attendance.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0224

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0129

Schools-compulsory attendance.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hammons and McOmie and Senator(s) Coe

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
compulsory school attendance; modifying requirements for compulsory attendance; imposing requirements on exemptions
from required attendance
; requiring school districts to report
use of foundation funds directed at student
drop-out
s;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S.
21
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3
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110(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxx) and
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102
(a)(intro) and by creating a new subsection (c) are
amended to read:

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110.

Duties of boards of trustees.

(a)

The board of trustees
in each school district shall:

(xxx)

Effective school year 200
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-200
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and each school year thereafter, annually report to the department of education on the use of at-risk, alternative program and other resources provided under W.S. 21
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309(m) and within the education resource block grant model as defined under W.S. 21
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101(a)(xiv)
, which are

directed
by the district to programs for

high school
students
who
are at-risk of
not
completing
or
graduating from high school as permitted under
W.S. 21
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4
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102.

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102.

When attendance required; exemptions
; notification of twelfth grade exemption by parent, guardian or custodian
.

(a)

Every parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who is a resident of this state and whose seventh birthday falls on or before September 15 of any year and who has not yet attained his
sixteenth
birthday or completed the
tenth
grade
, or
effective September 15, 2009, and each September 15 thereafter,
who has not yet attained his eighteenth birthday
or completed the twelfth
grade,
shall

except as provided under subsection (c) of this section,
be required to send
such

the
child to, and
such

the
child shall be required to attend, a public or private school each year
,
during the entire time that the public schools
shall be

is
in session in the district in which the pupil resides
.
;

provided, that

T
he board of trustees of each school district may exempt any child from
the operation of
this article when:

(c)

A
parent, guardian or
custodian of
a
resident
child who has not
completed the twelfth grade and has not
yet
attained his eighteenth birthday
on or before September 15, 2009, or on or before September 15 of any school year thereafter,
and
who
has p
rior to September 15 of th
e applicable
school
year
provide
d
notification to the school district in which the child resides that the child is not attending public or private school during this school year
,
may
exempt
the child
from
this article for that school year
subject to the following:

(i)

Notification filed under this subsection shall be certified in writing and shall indicate that the parent, guardian or custodian of the child understands that filing notification
with the district
exempts the child from attending public or private school
and that by not attending or receiving public or private school educational programs, the child will not graduate from public or private high school
in that school year
;

(ii)

Notification filed under this subsection shall include verification, as evidenced by district records or by other acceptable documentation accept
a
ble to the district, that t
he child
demonstrated proficiency or an equivalent level of competency in reading, writing and mathematics at the eleventh grade level
as measured by the statewide assessment, by other assessments or measures accepted or used by the district or through alternative assessments or
the child's individual education plan
.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2007.

(END)

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