HB410 Attendance & Truancy Reporting

Debbie Barbee, Business Analyst

The Management Council

Agenda

• What’s new in the suite

• HB410 Reporting

• Intervention Plan

• Attendance Reports

• New Features

• HB410 Scenarios

What’s happening in the suite

- Now available on YouTube

Examples:

- Student Verification (UNCLEMIS) in SI:

https://youtu.be/2AET_A4ZJr4

- Create From Existing in SpS:

https://youtu.be/kXIn-yogV7U

– The videos provide a quick overview of functionality in the suite.

– Currently cover areas in SI, DataMap, SpS and VirtualClassroom with plans to continue to add more.

StudentInformation / Suite Videos

HB410 Reporting

HB410

• Required many changes this year

– Changes in attendance calculations

– New reports

– New ways of tracking attendance

– Intervention teams

– Student Intervention Plans

– Closer monitoring of attendance

HB410 Absence Thresholds

• Habitually Truant – Absent 30 or more Consecutive Hours without a legitimate

excuse (unexcused)

– Absent 42 or more Hours in a Month without a legitimate excuse (unexcused)

– Absent 72 or more Hours in a Year without a legitimate excuse (unexcused)

• Excessive Absences – Absent 38 or more Hours in a Month with or without a legitimate

excuse; (excused & unexcused) or

– Absent 65 or more Hours in a School Year with or without a legitimate excuse (excused & unexcused)

EMIS Reporting

• FT Events reported based on data from Intervention Plan and Threshold data

– Reported by all EMIS reporting entities whoprovide education to students in grades KG &above

– Reported as they occur in Traditional districts Midyear & End of Year Student (S) collections

– SOES End of Year Student (S) Collection

EMIS Reporting - FT

• Dates are reported for the following events:

➢A – Parent Notified of Excessive Absences

➢B – Student becomes Habitually truant

➢C – Habitual Truant violates Court Order

➢D – Absence Intervention Plan Implemented

EMIS Reporting - FT

Event A - Parent Notified of Excessive Absences– Student has crossed an Excessive Absence threshold

(monthly or yearly)

– Parent Involvement record exists with Written Notification and Excessive Absences where the date is on or after when the student crossed the threshold

– The earliest involvement record on or after the threshold is reported

– Report only one record regardless of which threshold the student hit

EMIS Reporting - FT

Event B - Student Becomes Habitually Truant

– Student has crossed any of the Habitually Truant thresholds (consecutive, monthly, or yearly)

– The earliest involvement record on or afterthe threshold is reported

EMIS Reporting - FT

Event C - Habitual Truant violates court order

- Student has crossed any of the habitual truancy thresholds

- Judicial involvement record exists withViolates a Court Order and HabitualTruancy where the date is on or after whenthe student crossed the threshold

– Each involvement record on or after the threshold is reported

EMIS Reporting - FT

Event D - Absence Intervention Plan Implemented

– Student has crossed any of the Habitual Truancy thresholds (consecutive, monthly, or yearly)

– An intervention team Plan Created On date has been entered (can be before the threshold date)

– The Plan Created On date is reported

EMIS Reporting - FT

• Use the EMIS Transfer for ‘S’ Collections and select the Student Truancy and Excessive Absences (FT) option to transfer records to ODE

EMIS Reporting - FT

• Ad Hoc Reports Committee

– Working on adding additional reports for Intervention plan data

– New report will include all of the eventsreported in the FT file and studentdemographics for each student in the file

HB410 Reports – Attendance Thresholds

HB410 Reports – Yearly Absence Summary

HB410 Reports

• Additional reports available for attendancedata

• Yearly Absence Detail with Perfect Attendance

– Use post-processing filters to get the data you want from the report

– Click the ellipsis on the left side of the reportfor additional filtering options

Attendance Reports

HB410 Attendance Calculation

• Attendance calculated nightly for all districts in an ITC

• New Feature – Attupemis

– from the Period S Collection Verify Menu recalculates the HB410 & EMIS Attendance

– Updates FS Attendance Tab

– Recalculate attendance after daily attendanceis entered

– Recalculate before each EMIS Submission for the ‘S’ collection

HB410 Documentation

Check the task list after each

release. New features will be

included. The change log at the

beginning of the doc will make

you aware of the most recent

changes

Intervention Plan

HB410 – Intervention Plan

HB410 – Create Intervention

HB410 – Intervention Plan

Link from School Absences to Student Absence Intervention Page

HB410 – Absence Intervention

HB410 – Absence Intervention

HB410-Absence Intervention

• Once a plan is created, it remains open for the rest of the school year

• Intervention Plans cannot be deleted

• The Status at the top of the plan is ‘Open’ when the plan is created but may be changed to ‘Completed’ or ‘Cancelled’

• Plans are specific to the school year – if a plan carriesover to the next school year, create a plan in the nextschool year

HB410 – Absence Intervention

• Parent Involvement

• Judicial Contact

HB410 – ABSENCE INTERVENTION

New Features

HB410 Updates

• Updates made to accommodate students attending multiple buildings at the same time

– Current calculation doesn’t handle them properly

– No way to know how much time a student spends in each building

– Results in too much time calculated for the student

HB410 Updates

New page developed to specify Calendar percentages for students

HB410 Updates

• Script in 17.3.1 release initially populates table for any student enrolled in two or more buildings in the same district

• Records added initially with 50% in each building

• Manual adjustments may be made to correct the FTE for each building

• When student withdraws from a building, withdrawal date added to Percentage record

• Attendance calculated for the percent of time spent in each building

HB410 Updates

Example #1: Student spends 50% of time in two different buildings each dayStudent Calendar Assignments:

Promoted from last year in Choffin (7/1/17 – 9/4/17)

Choffin: 9/5/17 – 5/31/18

Chaney : 9/5/2017 – 5/25/18

New Attendance Percentage Table entries:

HB410 Updates

Example #2: Student Starts the school year attending one building. On November 5th, student also enrolls in another building in the district

HB410 Updates

Example #3: Student starts the school year in one building, enrolls in another on November 5th while still attending his original building, then withdraws from building B May 15th but remains enrolled in building A

HB410 Updates

Example #4: Student is enrolled in one building but attends another full time (ex: districts with a JVS building within the district)

HB410 Updates

Example #5: Student is only enrolled in one building in the district

HB410 Scenarios

CCP Student Attends Elsewhere Full-Time

• Students who attend CCP Full time elsewhere (taking CCP courses taught at another location) are to be counted for EMIS attendance as present 100% of the time.

• Since they are attending full time elsewhere, they should be set up as follows:

– Student may be assigned to any calendar, not the non-attending calendar. Since the student’s FTE is zero, and the student is coded as attending elsewhere full time as CCP, attendance will be calculated for the student as if he is attending AND was present 100% of the days he is enrolled.

CCP Student Attends Elsewhere Part Time

• Students who attend CCP Part Time elsewhere (taking CCP courses taught at another location part time) are to be counted for EMIS attendance as present for the time they are attending elsewhere and in attendance or absent according to attendance taken at the district for the time the student is being educated by the district. For this student, following these guidelines:

– Student should have an FTE greater than zero AND less than 100% on their FS record

– Student may be assigned to any attending calendar

– Absences for the time the student should be in attendance at the district should be entered as Partial Absences AND should contain both a start time and a stop time. This will ensure that the exact amount of hours is calculated for each absence.

CCP Student Attends district part-time & CCP part-time within the district

• Students who attend CCP Part time within their own district (CCP courses are offered within their high school

• For these students, since they never leave the building, attendance should be calculated for them as if they are attending the district 100% of time

• Any absences that occur during the time they are attending the CCP classes within the building should be counted the same as any other absence

Attendance for JVS Satellite Students

• A student attends their home district part time and a JVS Satellite, which is housed at their building for the rest of their day

• The student’s FTE is split between the time they are educated by employees of the home district and employees of the JVS

• The student never leaves the building to attend the JVS Satellite classes

• For EMIS reporting, attendance is calculated based on the percent of time educated in the district, however, the district is responsible for the student’s attendance for HB410 for the entire day

• At this time, districts must manually calculate the attendance for the time the students are attending the JVS classes. Enhancements have been submitted to calculate attendance for HB410 purposes for the whole day

Seniors who leave for a portion of the day

We have a district who allows their students to leave school for a portion of the

day that they do not have a class scheduled. When calculating absence time

for a student, should this period of the day be included? If they are not in

attendance for the full day, should their absence hours = 6 or 5.5? If they only

miss a portion of the day and part of the time is during this allowed out of

building period, does that time also get included time also get included?

• If student’s do not have a scheduled class, this time should not count

toward the minimum school year for that student and thus they should have

a reduced calendar. Per your example, these students would have 5.5 of

hours absences instead of 6 hours if they are not in attendance for the full

day. If they miss a portion of the day that they don’t have a scheduled

period, this portion would be reduced

School enters all absences as Unexcused until updated to excused

• If a school enters daily attendance as Unexcused until the student brings in

an excuse, they will have students hit thresholds that may not be accurate.

A student may show as hitting a threshold one day, but the next day, no

longer hitting it because the triggering absence was updated to an excused

absence.

• In 17.3.1, Attupemis will recalculate the HB410 attendance & EMIS

attendance for the district on demand

• Since ODE deletes all records and reloads with each submission, submit FT

Truancy records along with FS records

• For the end of the school year, make sure all absences and all Absence

Intervention plans are updated before the final S Collection submission

Students who hit the threshold for Chronic Absenteeism

• HB410 doesn’t require schools or districts to take any action if a student misses 10% or more of the school year

• When a student misses 10% or more of the school year, they are considered chronically absent

• It is good practice to track and offer proactive and supportive interventions to these students

• The school and district chronic absenteeism rate is currently reported on the Local Report Card

• As we transition to ESSA implementation, chronic absenteeism will be graded and will play a bigger part of the school improvement system

• ODE calculates chronic absenteeism ranges based on the attendance data submitted through EMIS

Questions?

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