Excused Absences & Home Bound Instructions Laws
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"Approximately half the parents reported their children were homeschooled or received home and hospital services due to physical illness, immunocompromised status, or unremitting anxiety." Rice Doran, P. & O'Hanlon, E. Families’ experiences with PANDAS and related disorders. Poster session, Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention. San Diego: April, 2015. Information on Excused Absences & Home Bound Instruction is available below and as a pdf file.
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Excused Absences
Students with PANS are medically fragile. As such, students with PANS may be absent from school more than 9 times a year. Therefore, when absences are medically necessary, they can obtain excused medical absences from their doctor and should not be counted as truant. Some students will be absent sporadically while others will need to be absent from school for longer period of times. The School Nurse, staff, parent, medical doctor should collaborate to determine plans for frequent but sporadic missed days as well as extended absences. Please note that under some circumstances extended absences will require Home Bound instruction.
Excerpt from Connecticut Statute on Excused Absences:
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Excused Absence Resources Links
Connecticut
CT SDE – Excused Absences Guidelines Read More Maine Maine DOE - Chapter 128-Truants & Dropouts-Guidelines Read More Massachusetts Maine BOE-Attendance and Dropout Reporting Guidelines Read More New Hampshire NH DOE Technical Advisory-Truancy Read More Rhode Island RI BOE - Compulsory Attendance Read More Vermont Vermont Agency of Education-Excused Absences Defined Read More |
Home Bound Instruction
Students with PANS are medically fragile. As such, students with PANS may be absent from school more for more than 9 consecutive days and may require Home Bound instruction. Home Bound Instruction is considered the most restrictive placement. Students with PANS may require this placement when a) they are too sick to attend school for extended periods b) require a non-infections environment that the school can’t provide. Instruction is designed to ensure the continuity of educational services between school and home placement. The goal is to facilitate the return to the school setting, as it is a temporary placement.
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Home Bound Instruction Resource Links
Connecticut
The CT SDE adopted new regulations, which went into effect on July 1, 2013.
All school nurses, school medical advisors and school personnel should be aware of the new language and requirements of the regulations.
CT SDE - Subject Matter Of Regulation: Special Education
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Massachusetts
Mass Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education
Question and Answer Guide on the Implementation of Educational Services in the Home or Hospital - 603 CMR 28.03(3)(c) and 28.04(4)
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Maine
Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty
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New Hampshire
NH DOE - Ed 1111.05 Home Instruction for School-Aged Children
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Rhode Island
RI BOE Regulations Governing The Education of Children with Disabilities-300.115(C) Continuum of special education program placement: home bound and hospital instructional programs
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Vermont
Vermont Agency of Education - 1252 Instruction for Home bound and Hospitalized Students
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The CT SDE adopted new regulations, which went into effect on July 1, 2013.
All school nurses, school medical advisors and school personnel should be aware of the new language and requirements of the regulations.
CT SDE - Subject Matter Of Regulation: Special Education
Read More
Massachusetts
Mass Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education
Question and Answer Guide on the Implementation of Educational Services in the Home or Hospital - 603 CMR 28.03(3)(c) and 28.04(4)
Read More
Maine
Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty
Read More
New Hampshire
NH DOE - Ed 1111.05 Home Instruction for School-Aged Children
Read More
Rhode Island
RI BOE Regulations Governing The Education of Children with Disabilities-300.115(C) Continuum of special education program placement: home bound and hospital instructional programs
Read More
Vermont
Vermont Agency of Education - 1252 Instruction for Home bound and Hospitalized Students
Read More
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