Post by Logan on May 4, 2016 23:04:43 GMT -6
An effort to decriminalize truancy in Ohio and deal with the problem before it reaches the courts passed the House on Wednesday with near-unanimous support.
Schools would no longer simply pass truancy problems to the court system for criminal punishment, nor could they suspend students who fail to attend class, which bill supporters say is counter-intuitive.
Rather, under House Bill 410, which passed the House 92-1 (Rep. Jim Buchy was the lone dissenting vote), schools would provide earlier notice to parents that students are missing class. Schools also would be pushed to use diversionary programs and intervention teams, including the parents and students, to form a plan to get the youth back in school, all before a complaint filed in court.
Schools and courts also would have to report more data on how they are dealing with truancy.
Read more: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/04/bill-to-fix-truancy-not-punish-it-passes-ohio-house.html
Schools would no longer simply pass truancy problems to the court system for criminal punishment, nor could they suspend students who fail to attend class, which bill supporters say is counter-intuitive.
Rather, under House Bill 410, which passed the House 92-1 (Rep. Jim Buchy was the lone dissenting vote), schools would provide earlier notice to parents that students are missing class. Schools also would be pushed to use diversionary programs and intervention teams, including the parents and students, to form a plan to get the youth back in school, all before a complaint filed in court.
Schools and courts also would have to report more data on how they are dealing with truancy.
Read more: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/04/bill-to-fix-truancy-not-punish-it-passes-ohio-house.html