ATTENDANCE & ENROLLMENT
5B226
RESIDENCY FOR STUDENTS IN SAFETY PLACEMENTS
Effective for the 2025-26 School Year
• Allows a child who is living under a parental child safety placement agreement to establish residency with a letter from the Department of Family and Protective Services and requires any placement agreements enacted after August 31 to include a residency letter
5B991
AT-RISK & ABSENTEEISM REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Effective September 1, 2025
• Expands the definition of " at risk " to include a student absent 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year or who is " chronically absent " and defines chronically absent as a student who is absent from school for more than 10 percent of the school ' s required operation and instructional time within a school year or an enrollment period that exceeds 30 instructional days
• Requires districts to report absenteeism by whether a student receives compensatory, intensive and accelerated instruction
• Requires TEA to make truancy data for each campus and district publicly available
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