2014–2015 Student Attendance Accounting Handbook Texas Education Agency July 15, 2014 State Board of Education MARTHA M. DOMINGUEZ District 1 RUBEN CORTEZ JR. Brownsville District 2 THOMAS RATLIFF Mount Pleasant District 9 TOM MAYNARD Florence District 10 MARISA B. PEREZ San Antonio District 3 PATRICIA HARDY Fort Worth District 11 LAWRENCE A. ALLEN JR. Fresno District 4 GERALDINE MILLER Dallas District 12 BARBARA CARGILL Chair The Woodlands District 8 KEN MERCER San Antonio District 5 DONNA BAHORICH Houston District 6 MAVIS B. KNIGHT District 13 SUE MELTON Waco District 14
Section 7 Prekindergarten (PK) This section addresses unique attendance accounting provisions for PK. They must be applied in conjunction with the general rules in Sections 1, 2, and 3. If students are served by multiple programs, review and apply the provisions of each applicable program. Important: See Section 3 for general attendance requirements that apply to all program areas, including PK. Any school district may offer PK classes, but your district must offer PK classes if it identifies 15 or more eligible children who are at least 4 years of age on or before September 1 of the current school year. The commissioner of education may exempt a district from this requirement if the district would be required to construct classroom facilities to provide PK classes. 7.1 Responsibility List in the following spaces the name and phone number of the district personnel to whom all PK coding questions should be directed: Name: _____________________________________________________________ Phone Number: ______________________________________________________ 7.2 Eligibility To be eligible for enrollment in a PK class, a child must be 3 or 4 years of age on September 1 of the current school year and must meet one of the following requirements: 1. be unable to speak and comprehend the English language; or 2. be educationally disadvantaged (eligible to participate in the National School Lunch Program [NSLP]; see 7.2.3 PK Eligibility Based on Being Educationally Disadvantaged (Eligible for the NSLP)); or 3. be homeless; or 4. be the child of an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, including the state military forces or a reserved component of the armed forces, who is ordered to active duty by proper authority; or
Students who are served in nontraditional programs are eligible for special program (special education, career and technical education, bilingual/ESL education, etc.) funding provided all requirements of the special programs are met, including service by certified special program teachers. 11.3 College Credit Programs Your district may offer several different types of college credit programs. The chart on the following two pages provides information on these programs.
students who move to your district: bilingual/English as a second language, 178; gifted/talented, 208; home language survey, 186; record transfer, 54; special education, 93; up to 185 days of funding in some circumstances, 79 substitute care, 282; eligibility for Texas Virtual School Network, 257 tardies, 65 Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN), 59, 255; student eligibility, 256 training site, 165, 167 transfer students: accounting example, 83; eligible full-day, 39; eligible half-day, 41; eligible transfer, definition, 276; funding, 42; ineligible full-day, 40; transfer to district of bordering state, 51 two-through-four-hour rule (2-through-4-hour rule), 39, 273 waivers, 20, 36, 74, 85 weather days, 73 year-round schools, 80, 86, 282 zero-filled PEIMS records, 66, 282 This page has been left blank intentionally.