Pupil attendance: chronic absenteeism.

Existing law requires a school district to classify a pupil subject to compulsory full-time education who is absent or tardy from school without a valid excuse on a specified number of occasions as a truant and requires the school district to report the pupil to the attendance supervisor or the superintendent of the school district. This bill would require the State Department of Education to establish a grant program to provide key resources to school districts to help them enhance programs to reduce chronic absenteeism of pupils in the state.