Attendance Requirements – Reopening Frenship

Students will be required to meet the minimum attendance for class credit rule (TEC,§25.092). Students are required to attend at least 90% of their classes to receive credit. Remote attendance will count in the same manner as Face-to-Face attendance in satisfying this requirement.

Truancy laws will apply to students who fail to attend school, but remote attendance satisfies attendance requirements.

TEA requires that schools track the instructional method in which the student is participating each school day.

Face-to-Face Learning Participants

There are no changes to the way Face-to-Face days present and days absent will be reported.

Short-Term Online Participants

In the event of a short-term closure or quarantine situation (example: 14-day quarantine), individual students can transition to this temporary virtual learning model if needed. This is different from enrolling your student in Virtual Learning. The length of the online participation will be determined on a case-by-case basis. The students will continue to receive instruction from their classroom teacher through Schoology.

The teacher will identify the student as Remote Asynchronous (RA) Present. In order to be counted present the student does not have to be present at a designated official attendance time.
In order for a student to be counted “Present,” the student must engage in at least one of the following ways each day:
- Student has shown daily progress in Schoology
- Student has shown daily progress via teacher-student interactions
- Student has completed/turned-in assignment(s) to the teacher
Attendance in Skyward does not need to be taken daily and typically would not happen the same day, as the information as to whether engagement occurred might not be available until the following day.

A Schoology report will be pulled on Monday to review student engagement to determine which days the student was Present or Absent for the previous week.

Virtual Learning Participants

The teacher will identify the student as Remote Asynchronous (RA) Present. In order to be counted present the student does not have to be present at a designated official attendance time.
In order for a student to be counted “Present,” the student must engage in at least one of the following ways each day:
- Student has shown daily progress in Schoology
- Student has shown daily progress via teacher-student interactions
- Student has completed/turned-in assignment(s) to the teacher
Attendance in Skyward does not need to be taken daily and typically would not happen the same day, as the information as to whether engagement occurred might not be available until the following day.
A Schoology report will be pulled on Monday to review student engagement to determine which days the student was Present or Absent for the previous week.

Special programming instructional settings for Short-Term Online Participants and Virtual Learners (I.e. bilingual/ESL, Special Education, CTE, etc.)

As long as the campus is providing services, the campus will report days present in the special program areas.