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TN Code § 49-6-3002 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3002. State Attendance Guidelines — No Penalty for Period of Hospital or Homebound Instruction

  The state board of education shall promulgate rules, in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, that prescribe guidelines for use by local boards of education in establishing standards and policies governing student attendance, subject to availability of funds. The guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, the following stipulations:  Attendance policies shall be firm but fair so that each student has a reasonable opportunity to meet the minimum requirements;   Effective accounting and reporting procedures shall be developed to keep parents or guardians informed of a student's absence from class;   Policies shall accommodate extenuating circumstances created by emergencies over which the student has no control;   Appeal procedures shall be included to assure the student's right of due process; and   Alternative programs shall be established to provide educational options for any student who severely fails to meet minimum attendance requirements.     Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a student is unable to attend regular classes because of illness, injury or pregnancy and if the student has participated in a program of hospital or homebound instruction administered or approved by the LEA, then the student shall not be penalized for grading purposes nor be denied course completion, grade level advancement or graduation solely on the basis of the student's absence from the regular classroom during the period of the hospital or homebound instruction.    Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a student is unable to attend regular classes pursuant to a summons, subpoena, court order, statute or rule, then the student's absence shall be an excused absence and the student shall be afforded the opportunity to complete all assignments missed for this purpose.   Subdivision (c)(1) shall not apply if a student's absence is:  The result of a commission of a delinquent act and notice of intent to transfer the student to criminal court has been provided pursuant to § 37-1-134; or   For detention purposes pursuant to § 37-1-114(c).
TN Code § 49-6-3003 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3003. Tuition or Other Fees

   No tuition or fee shall be charged by any city or special school district except to pupils residing outside the city or district.   Tuition or fees that may be charged to pupils residing outside the city or district but within the county shall not exceed per pupil, per annum, an amount equal to the amount of funds actually raised and used for school purposes from the city or special school district sources during the preceding school year, including tuition and fees, divided by the number of pupils in average daily attendance in the public schools of the city or district during the preceding school year.      Tuition and fees may be charged by any county to pupils not residing in that county. Tuition and fees may also be charged by any county to all pupils for voluntary programs that occur outside the required one hundred eighty (180) instructional days, unless the state funds the entire cost of the instruction.   Tuition and fees charged by a county may not exceed per pupil, per annum, an amount equal to the amount of funds actually raised and used for school purposes by the county, divided by the number of pupils in average daily attendance in the county schools during the preceding school year. Any per pupil tuition payment shall be reduced by any amount of funds transferred by the transferring pupil's county of residence under § 49-6-3104.       Any parent, guardian or other legal custodian who enrolls an out-of-district student in a school district and fraudulently represents the address for the domicile of the student for enrollment purposes is liable for restitution to the school district for an amount equal to the local per pupil expenditure identified by the Tennessee department of education for the district in which the student is fraudulently enrolled.   Any parent, guardian or other legal custodian who enrolls an out-of-state student in a school district and fraudulently represents the address for the domicile of the student for enrollment purposes is liable for restitution to the school district for an amount equal to the state and local per pupil expenditure identified by the Tennessee department of education for the district in which the student is fraudulently enrolled.      Restitution shall be cumulative for each year the child has been fraudulently enrolled in the system. The restitution shall be payable to the school district and, when litigation is necessary to recover restitution, the parent, guardian or other legal custodian shall be liable for costs and fees, including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by the school district.   An action for restitution shall be brought by or on behalf of the district in the circuit or chancery court in which the district is located within one (1) year of the date the fraudulent representation occurred or was discovered, whichever is later. In no event shall the action be brought more than six (6) years after the date on which the fraudulent enrollment occurred.
TN Code § 49-6-3005 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3005. Children Excused From Compulsory Attendance

  The following classes of children between six (6) and seventeen (17) years of age, both inclusive, shall be temporarily excused from complying with this part, the local board of education to be sole judge in all such cases involving children who are enrolled in a public school and, as to children enrolled in a nonpublic school, as defined by § 49-6-3001(c)(3), the director of schools of the school to be the sole judge in all such cases:  Children mentally or physically incapacitated to perform school duties, such disability to be attested by a duly licensed physician in all cases;   Children who have completed high school and hold a high school diploma;   Children temporarily excused from attendance in school under rules and regulations promulgated by the state board of education, which rules and regulations shall not be in conflict with § 50-5-103 or any other law governing child labor in this state;   Children six (6) years of age or under whose parent or guardian have filed a notice of intent to conduct a home school as provided by § 49-6-3001 or who are conducting a home school as provided by § 49-6-3050; and   Children who have attained their seventeenth birthday and whose continued compulsory attendance, in the opinion of the board of education in charge of the school to which the children belong and are enrolled, results in detriment to good order and discipline and to the instruction of other students and is not of substantial benefit to the children.     In all cases described in subsection (a), the board shall first obtain the recommendation in writing from the director of schools of the system and the principal of the school to which the child or children belong.   No child who is refused attendance in a school nearer to the child's residence having equivalent grade levels and curriculum shall be required to attend public or nonpublic school as provided in § 49-6-3001.   In addition to the categories of children specified in subsection (a), the local board of education may excuse children from attendance in accordance with guidelines developed by the state board of education for this purpose.
TN Code § 49-6-3006 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3006. Attendance Supervisor

  The sole responsibility and authority for the enforcement of the compulsory attendance laws, compiled in this part, are placed in the local board of education and its designated employees and officers.   To facilitate the enforcement of the compulsory attendance laws, the director of schools shall designate at least one (1) qualified employee who shall be identified as the LEA attendance supervisor. The duties of an attendance supervisor include, but are not limited to, assisting the local board, under the direction of the director of schools, with the enforcement of the compulsory attendance laws of the state and to discharge other duties that are necessary to effectuate enforcement of laws and local policies related to absenteeism and truancy. The attendance supervisor may also be directed to devise and recommend to the director of schools, for board approval, a progressive truancy intervention plan consistent with § 49-6-3009.   The state board of education is authorized to promulgate rules regarding training, licensure, and employment qualifications of attendance supervisors.
TN Code § 49-6-3008 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3008. Truancy — Inspections and Investigations

  The director of schools of any local school system, or the director of schools' designated representative, has the right to visit and enter any office, factory or business house employing children belonging to schools within the director of schools' jurisdiction and to require properly attested certificates of attendance or employment permit of any child in a day school or a valid work permit for the child.   When reasonable doubt exists as to the age of any child who violates this part, the director of schools or the director of schools' designated representative shall require satisfactory proof of age.   Any parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of any child embraced within this part who makes a false statement concerning the age of the child or the time that the child has attended school commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 49-6-3010 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3010. Jurisdiction of School Attendance Cases

  Each judge of a juvenile court or court of general sessions is vested with the power to hear all cases coming within this part; provided, that in all cities maintaining a separate system of schools, the city recorder or city judge may try such cases coming within the official's jurisdiction.   Any party aggrieved may appeal to the circuit or criminal court from the action of the judge of the juvenile court or court of general sessions or city recorder.
TN Code § 49-6-3011 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3011. Disposition of Fines

 All moneys collected as fines for violations of this part shall be placed in the public school fund of the local school system in which the child resides. Fines may be recovered by rule or in any way that a court of law enforces its orders or decrees.
TN Code § 49-6-3012 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3012. Truancy Schools

  The board of education having charge of the public schools of any local school system having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more, according to the federal census of 1950 or any subsequent federal census, may establish a truancy school, either within or without the city limits, for children who are between seven (7) and sixteen (16) years of age, both inclusive, and who are habitual truants, or while in attendance at school are incorrigible, vicious, immoral or who habitually wander or loiter about without lawful employment.   Such children shall be deemed disorderly juvenile persons, and may be compelled by the board to attend the truancy school or any department of the public school as the board may direct.   Any board of education having charge of schools affected by this part shall have authority to exclude any delinquent pupil whose influence is deemed by the board to be demoralizing or injurious to other pupils attending the schools.
TN Code § 49-6-3013 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3013. Children Unable to Buy Books

 If satisfactory proof is presented that any child is unable to attend school as required by this part because the child is not able to procure books, the local board of education having charge of the school to which the child belongs shall purchase the books out of the public school fund of the local district and lend the books to the child under regulations prescribed by the board during the term the books are needed.
TN Code § 49-6-3014 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3014. Children Lacking Clothing or Food

  If it is ascertained by any local board of education that any child who is required under this part to attend a school under the control of the board is unable to do so on account of lack of clothing or food, such case shall be reported to the welfare agency in the school district.   Any worthy case not receiving immediate relief shall be reported by the board to the officials having charge of such work for investigation and relief.
TN Code § 49-6-3016 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3016. Special Days and Holidays

  Thanksgiving Day and December 25 are set apart as holidays for all the public schools, and boards of education are authorized to pay the salary of teachers of all schools that have not closed their term for the year at the same rate as if the teachers had taught school on those holidays; provided, that the failure to teach on any other day or days within the scholastic term shall not be counted as time for which salary shall be allowed.   The governor shall proclaim February of each year as American history month in this state. The governor shall issue a proclamation calling upon all elementary school teachers and all teachers of American history in secondary schools to arrange special programs at some time during American history month, and calling upon the people of the entire state to observe it in some fitting manner, having as their objectives the advancement of the study of American history and the promotion of American heritage.   The month of February of each and every year is officially recognized and designated as “Tennessee and American History Month,” and the public schools, colleges and universities shall give due regard to such.
TN Code § 49-6-3018 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3018. Children Serving as Pages for General Assembly

 A child who serves as a page of the general assembly during the school year, either at regular or special sessions, shall be credited as present by the school in which the child is enrolled in the same manner as an educational field trip. The child's participation as a page shall not be counted as an absence, either excused or unexcused.
TN Code § 49-6-3019 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3019. Excused Absence for Deployment or Return From Deployment of Parent or Guardian in Armed Forces

  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if a student's parent, custodian or other person with legal custody or control of the student is a member of the United States armed forces, including a member of a state national guard or a reserve component called to federal active duty, a public school principal shall give the student:  An excused absence for one (1) day when the member is deployed;   An additional excused absence for one (1) day when the service member returns from deployment;   Excused absences for up to ten (10) days for visitation when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country; and   Excused absences for up to ten (10) days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle. Total excused absences under subdivisions (a)(3) and (4) shall not exceed a total of ten (10) days within the school year. The student shall provide documentation to the school as proof of the service member's deployment.     Students receiving an excused absence under this section shall have the opportunity to make up school work missed and shall not have their class grades adversely affected for lack of class attendance or class participation due to the excused absence.
TN Code § 49-6-3020 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3020. Documentation of Student's Withdrawal and Transfer

  An LEA shall document a student's withdrawal from a school and transfer to another school, system or state through the best information available. Such information may include documentation provided by relatives or community contacts, court documents, requests for records from a school to which the student transferred and other reasonable means of determining whether the withdrawing student enrolled in another school or program leading to a high school diploma. A permanent record containing all pertinent information with regard to a student's withdrawal from school, including the signature of the parent or guardian requesting withdrawal, and, to the extent possible, the student's future destination shall be kept.   The department of education shall require an LEA to obtain formal written proof that a child who has moved out-of-state has enrolled in a school or program leading to the award of a regular high school diploma in order not to count such student as a dropout.
TN Code § 49-6-3021 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3021. Remedial Instruction Outside of Regular School Day

  This part shall apply to a student's attendance at any remedial instruction that is required by the student's school including, but not limited to, programs conducted during the summer and after the conclusion of the regular school day. The decision to require a student's attendance at such instruction shall be made by the principal of the student's school in coordination with any teachers who provide instruction to the student and any other appropriate school faculty. The principal shall make the decision as to when the student shall be released from the requirement of attending the remedial instruction. Students may be suspended or expelled from the program under § 49-6-3401.   In making the determination under subsection (a) to require a student to attend a remediation program offered outside the regular school day, the principal shall consider the type of transportation available to the student and whether the student would face hardship in attending the program due to lack of transportation.    The principal of a school shall report promptly to the director of schools, or the director's designated representative, the name of any student required to attend a remedial program who has been absent from the remedial program five (5) times without adequate excuse. The principal shall make the report after the fifth unexcused absence whether the absences have been consecutive or not. The principal shall also report each successive accumulation of five (5) unexcused absences by the student.   If a student's unexcused absences from remedial instruction are reported to the director of schools, or the director's representative, then the director, or the director's representative, shall proceed, pursuant to § 49-6-3007, in the same manner as required for unexcused absences from the regular school day. The appropriate judge having juvenile jurisdiction in the county shall deal with the case in such manner as the judge may determine to be in the best interest of the child, consistent with §§ 37-1-132, 37-1-168 and 37-1-169 and in the event the child is adjudicated to be unruly, the judge may assess a fine of up to fifty dollars ($50.00) or five (5) hours of community service, in the discretion of the judge, against the parents or legal guardians of such student.   This subsection (c) shall only apply to remedial programs that are offered at no cost to the parent; provided, that prior to the LEA requiring the student to attend the remedial program, the LEA commits to provide transportation to those students in the remedial program who qualify for transportation to and from school.
TN Code § 49-6-3022 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3022. Excused Absence for Participation in Nonschool-Sponsored Extracurricular Activity

  A school principal or the principal's designee may excuse a student from school attendance to participate in a nonschool-sponsored extracurricular activity, if the following conditions are met:  The student provides documentation to the school as proof of the student's participation in the nonschool-sponsored extracurricular activity; and   The student's parent, custodian, or other person with legal custody or control of the student, prior to the extracurricular activity, submits to the principal or the principal's designee a written request for the excused absence. The written request shall be submitted no later than seven (7) business days prior to the student's absence. The written request shall include:  The student's full name and personal identification number;   The student's grade;   The dates of the student's absence;   The reason for the student's absence; and   The signature of both the student and the student's parent, custodian, or other person with legal custody or control of the student.       The principal or the principal's designee shall approve, in writing, the student's participation in the nonschool-sponsored extracurricular activity.   The principal may limit the number and duration of nonschool-sponsored extracurricular activities for which excused absences may be granted to a student during the school year.   Notwithstanding subsection (c), the principal shall excuse no more than ten (10) absences each school year for students participating in nonschool-sponsored extracurricular activities.
TN Code § 49-6-3023 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Part 30 - Attendance|§ 49-6-3023. Rules to Ensure Incarcerated Students Provided Educational Services

  The department of education shall develop rules to be adopted by the state board of education to ensure students incarcerated in detention centers licensed by the department of children's services under § 37-5-502 are provided educational services by an LEA serving the county in which the detention center is located.   The rules developed under this section shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, and shall include, at a minimum, procedures for:  The funding in an amount equal to the per pupil state and local funds received by the LEA in which the student was enrolled at the time of incarceration on a prorated daily basis for the length of the student's incarceration to be used for the student's education;   The prompt transfer of the incarcerated student's educational records, including transcripts, from the LEA in which the student was enrolled at the time of incarceration to the LEA in which the detention center is located; and   Providing instruction to students incarcerated in detention centers for a minimum of four (4) hours each instructional day.     The department of education shall monitor the educational services provided to students incarcerated in detention centers.   The department of children's services shall ensure that detention centers licensed under § 37-5-502 comply with any rules adopted by the state board of education pursuant to this section.