RCW 28A.225.005 Information for students and parents. (1) Each school within a school district shall inform the students and the parents of the students enrolled in the school about: The benefits of regular school attendance; the potential effects of excessive absenteeism, whether excused or unexcused, on academic achievement, and graduation and dropout rates; the school’s […]
RCW 28A.225.007 Student absence elimination and prevention—Guidance from the superintendent of public instruction. The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall develop and publish best practice guidance to eliminate or reduce student absences and to otherwise implement the requirements of this chapter. The guidance must focus on student and family engagement, be based in […]
RCW 28A.225.010 Attendance mandatory—Age—Exceptions. (1) All parents in this state of any child eight years of age and under eighteen years of age shall cause such child to attend the public school of the district in which the child resides and such child shall have the responsibility to and therefore shall attend for the full […]
RCW 28A.225.015 Attendance mandatory—Six or seven year olds—Unexcused absences—Petition. (1) If a parent enrolls a child who is six or seven years of age in a public school, the child is required to attend and that parent has the responsibility to ensure the child attends for the full time that school is in session. An […]
RCW 28A.225.018 Conferences to identify barriers to child’s school attendance. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, in the event that a child in elementary school is required to attend school under RCW 28A.225.010 or 28A.225.015(1) and has five or more excused absences in a single month during the current school year, […]
RCW 28A.225.020 School’s duties upon child’s failure to attend school. (1) If a child required to attend school under RCW 28A.225.010 fails to attend school without valid justification, the public school in which the child is enrolled shall: (a) Inform the child’s parent by a notice in writing or by telephone whenever the child has […]
RCW 28A.225.023 Youth subject to a dependency proceeding—Review of unexpected or excessive absences—Support for youth’s school work. (1) A school district representative or school employee shall review unexpected or excessive absences with students who are the subject of a dependency proceeding and adults involved with the students, to include the students’ caseworkers, educational liaisons, attorneys […]
RCW 28A.225.025 Community engagement boards—Membership—Duties. (1) For purposes of this chapter, “community engagement board” means a board established pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between a juvenile court and a school district and composed of members of the local community in which the child attends school. Community engagement boards must include members who receive training […]
RCW 28A.225.026 Community engagement boards—Memoranda of understanding with juvenile courts—Designation of school district coordinators to address absenteeism and truancy—Community-wide partnerships. (1) By the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, juvenile courts must establish, through a memorandum of understanding with each school district within their respective counties, a coordinated and collaborative approach to address truancy through […]
RCW 28A.225.0261 Community engagement boards—Effect of diversion from truancy petitions—Evaluation by Washington state institute for public policy—Reports. (1) By requiring an initial stay of truancy petitions for diversion to community engagement boards, the legislature intends to achieve the following outcomes: (a) Increased access to community engagement boards and other truancy early intervention programs for parents […]
RCW 28A.225.027 Community engagement boards—Grants for training—Grants for services and treatment. (1) Subject to funds appropriated for this purpose, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall allocate to community engagement boards grant funds that may be used to supplement existing funds in order to pay for training for board members or the provision […]
RCW 28A.225.030 Petition to juvenile court for violations by a parent or child—School district responsibilities. (1) If a child under the age of seventeen is required to attend school under RCW 28A.225.010 and if the actions taken by a school district under RCW 28A.225.020 are not successful in substantially reducing an enrolled student’s absences from […]
RCW 28A.225.031 Alcohol or controlled substances testing—Authority to order. The authority of a court to issue an order for testing to determine whether the child has consumed or used alcohol or controlled substances applies to all persons subject to a petition under RCW 28A.225.030 regardless of whether the petition was filed before July 27, 1997. […]
RCW 28A.225.035 Petition to juvenile court—Contents—Court action—Referral to community engagement board or other coordinated intervention—Transfer of jurisdiction upon relocation. (1) A petition for a civil action under RCW 28A.225.030 or 28A.225.015 shall consist of a written notification to the court alleging that: (a) The child has unexcused absences as described in RCW 28A.225.030(1) during the […]
RCW 28A.225.055 Excused absences—Search and rescue activities. The legislature finds that state-recognized search and rescue activities, as defined in chapter 38.52 RCW and the rules interpreting the chapter, are recognized as activities deserving of excuse from school. Therefore, the legislature strongly encourages that excused absences be granted to students for up to five days each […]
RCW 28A.225.060 Custody and disposition of child absent from school without excuse. Any school district official, sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, police officer, or any other officer authorized to make arrests, may take into custody without a warrant a child who is required under the provisions of RCW 28A.225.010 through 28A.225.140 to attend school and is […]
RCW 28A.225.080 Employment permits. Except as otherwise provided in this code, no child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed for any purpose by any person, company or corporation, in this state during the hours which the public schools of the district in which such child resides are in session, unless the said […]
RCW 28A.225.090 Court orders—Penalties—Parents’ defense. (1) A court may order a child subject to a petition under RCW 28A.225.035 to do one or more of the following: (a) Attend the child’s current school, and set forth minimum attendance requirements, which shall not consider a suspension day as an unexcused absence; (b) If there is space […]
RCW 28A.225.095 Authority of court commissioners and family law commissioners to hear cases under this chapter. In any judicial district having a court commissioner, the court commissioner shall have the power, authority, and jurisdiction, concurrent with a juvenile court judge, to hear all cases under RCW 28A.225.030, 28A.225.090, and 28A.225.035 and to enter judgment and […]
RCW 28A.225.110 Fines applied to support of schools. Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 10.82.070, fifty percent of all fines except as otherwise provided in RCW 28A.225.010 through 28A.225.140 shall be applied to the support of the public schools in the school district where such offense was committed: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties […]
