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COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 1 1.0

11 Jan 2023

• On the issue of absenteeism, the Attendance Task Force of the Indigenous Inclusion Directorate is leading a review, which includes the use of a consultant group to study absenteeism both across Canada and in the Manitoba context. [...] • The student attendance directive serves the purpose of ensuring schools have policies around meaningfully tracking and responding to the absence of students from school to limit the development of chronic absenteeism, and upholding the rights of children and youth to education. [...] Analysis Summary: Although the wording of this recommendation is similar to that of the suspensions/expulsions recommendations found in other MACY reports, the focus of this recommendation and accompanying responses pertains specifically to the issue of chronic absenteeism. [...] A draft of the policy directive on student attendance was provided with the response to this recommendation, with commitment to the release of the directive in Fall 2022. [...] With the release of the student attendance policy directive, along with the finalization of the suspension and expulsion policy directive found in the Documenting the Decline recommendation 2 response, the actions taken fully implement the intents of this recommendation resulting in a fully compliant determination.

Authors

Matthew Maher

Pages
5
Published in
Canada

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