Subscribe to the articles RSS feedBack to School: Novel Attendance Issues in 2020
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, day-to-day school attendance problems typically involved unexcused student absences, excessive sick days, or other situations in which a student’s or employee’s physical absence from school disrupted student education in some way. For Wisconsin school districts that have adopted an education model involving in-person learning (and for those districts that will be phasing in face-to-face instruction), the biggest attendance concern for the 2020-2021 academic year is knowing when and under what circumstances students, teachers, and other school staff should not be permitted to physically attend school as a result of the quarantine of isolation requirements. This Legal Update provides a summary of the current federal and state quarantine and isolation recommendations for school districts to consider when it is made aware of a student or staff member’s possible exposure to or contraction of COVID-19.
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