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STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOLUTIONS, INC.
Student Support ServicesSolutions, Inc. (S4) iscommitted to ensuring thatchildren and youth attendschool in a safe, secure andnurturing environment. Wespecifically focus on the“Engagement” priorities ofthe Local Control andAccountability Plan (LCAP) --Student Engagement, SchoolClimate, and ParentInvolvement. We build thecapacity of adults to helpchildren and youth throughtechnical support, training,identification of appropriateresources, and disseminationof timely information.
What is your organization doing toraise awareness and improve attendance?
Attendance Awareness Month Has Begun!
Updates on a few bills that
have been signed by
Governor Brown.
Other awareness month
information for September
and October.
Listing of religious holidays
for the 2015-2016 school
year.
List of upcoming events
that address areas under
student services.
Legislation Important Dates Religious Holidays Upcoming Events
Attendance Awareness Month is a national initiative that highlights theconnection between school attendance and academic achievement. The goalof Attendance Awareness Month is to encourage schools and their localcommunities to promote the importance of regular school attendance and totake steps toward reducing chronic absence. Attendance Works and almost 50national organizations are working together to make this year’s AttendanceAwareness Month a success! Attendance Works has developed a number ofresources to help educational entities and community partners implementAttendance Awareness Month. If you haven’t started, it’s not too late!
Visit Attendance Works to access the following no-cost resources:
● Attendance Action Map - Post what activities and events are being held inyour school or community to monitor chronic absencehttp://awareness.attendanceworks.org/aam-map-form-2015/
● Toolkits – Access the toolkit that addresses attendance awareness month,as well as, four other toolkits related to school attendancehttp://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/toolkit/
● Social Media – Utilize the sample tweets and Facebook posts to promoteSchool Attendance Monthhttp://awareness.attendanceworks.org/social-media/
● Video/Multimedia – Download and share videos with stakeholders toengage them in building a culture of good attendancehttp://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/videomultimedia/
● Handouts – Download and send age-appropriate handouts to parentshttp://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/promotional-materials/parent-handouts/
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOLUTIONS, INC.
AB 104 (Committee on Budget).Education finance: education omnibustrailer bill.Among several other provisions,establishes homeless students as asubgroup for the purposes ofunduplicated pupil counts used in theLCAPs beginning in 2016-2017; andpermits pupils who will turn five yearsold after the eligibility window forTransitional Kindergarten (TK) to beenrolled in TK before they turn fiveyears old – the enrollment shall notgenerate funding for average dailyattendance or be included in theenrollment or unduplicated pupilcount for purposes of the LCFF untilthose pupils turn five years old.(Already in effect.)
AB 1166 (Bloom). Pupils in foster care:pupils who are homeless children oryouth: school transfer: exemption fromlocal graduation requirements.Clarifies that even if a school districtfails to provide notification of eligibilitywithin the timelines provided in law, apupil still qualifies for exemption evenafter the pupil is no longer in fostercare or homeless. Also clarifies that ahomeless child/youth who is exemptedfrom local graduation requirementscontinues to quality for the exemptioneven after the pupil is not longer ahomeless child or youth.
TIME TO BEGIN REVISINGPOLICIES, RULES & REGULATIONS
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
● Crime Prevention Month
● Health Literacy Month
● National Bullying PreventionMonth
● National Communicate withYour Kids Month
● National Depression &Mental Health ScreeningMonth
● America’s Safe SchoolsWeek (10/18-10/24)
● National School Bus SafetyWeek (10/18-10-24)
● National Character CountsWeek (10/19-10/25)
● Red Ribbon Week (10/23-10/31)
● National PreparednessMonth
● National Childhood ObesityAwareness Month
● Childhood CancerAwareness Month
● Suicide Awareness &Prevention Week (9/7-9/13)
● World Suicide PreventionDay (9/10)
● Hispanic Heritage Month(9/15-10/15)
● International Day of Peace(9/21)
● Family Health & Fitness Day(9/26)
SEPTEMBER 2015
OCTOBER 2015
NATIONAL & STATE EDUCATIONALAND HEALTH AWARENESS DATES
SB 725 (Hancock). Pupil testing: highschool exit examination: exemption.Provides that the CAHSEE shall not berequired as condition of receiving adiploma for graduation or a conditionof graduation from high school for apupil completing grade 12 in 2015 andwho has met all other graduationrequirements. (Already in effect.)
SB 200 (Lara). Pupils: school districtresidency requirements.A pupil complies with a school district’sresidency requirements when thepupil’s parent/guardian resides outsideof the boundaries of a school districtbut is employed and lives with thepupil at the place of his/heremployment within the boundaries ofthat school district for a minimum of 3days during the week.
AB 1101 (Bonilla). Pupil schoolenrollment: residency requirements:policy on investigations.Requires the governing board of aschool district that elects to undertakeinvestigations to determine whetherpupils meet the residencyrequirements for school attendance toadopt a policy. Specifies what isrequired, at minimum, in such policy.
SB 277 (Pan). Public health:vaccinations.Eliminates the exemption from existingspecified immunization requirementsbased upon personal beliefs, butallows for a child to have a medicalexemption when a physician believesthe circumstances so warrant. Pupilswho had a personal belief exemptionprior to January 1, 2016 will berequired to be immunized when theyenroll in the next grade span.
AB 881 (Cristina Garcia). Pupils:grounds for suspension and expulsion:bullying.Defines “electronic act” as either thecreation or transmission of acommunication by means of anelectronic devise. Makes other minorchanges.
Unless otherwise specified, laws go into effect on January 1, 2016.
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOLUTIONS, INC.
July2 Asalha Puja Day (Buddhist)10 Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha’i)13 Laylat as-Qadr (Islam)13-15 Ulambana/Oban (Buddhist)18-21 Eid al Fitr (Islam)26 Tisha B-Av (Jewish)31 Guru Purnima (Hindu)
August1 Fast in Honor of the Holy Mother of Lord
Jesus (Eastern Orthodox Christian);Lammas (Christian; Wicca)
6 Transfiguration of the Lord (EasternOrthodox Christian)
15 Feast of the Assumption of the BlessedVirgin Mary (Christian); Dormition of theTheotokos (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
19 Naga Panchami (Hindu)28 Onam (Hindu)29 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu)
September1 Ecclesiastical Year begins (Orthodox
Christian)5 Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)7 His Holiness Sakya Trizin’s Birthday
(Buddhist)8 Nativity of Mary (Christian); Nativity of
the Theotokos (Eastern OrthodoxChristian)
14 Feast of Trumpets (Church of God;Philadelphia Church of God); TheElevation of the Holy Cross (EasternOrthodox Christian)
14-15 Rosh Hashanah (Jewish);17 Ganesha Chaturthi (Hindu)22 Hajj Day (Islam)23 Yom Kippur (Jewish); Mabon (Wicca);
Day of Atonement (Christian; Church ofGod; Philadelphia Church of God); Eid alAdha (Islam)
28 Sukkot (Jewish); Feast of Tabernacles(Church of God; Philadelphia Church ofGod) – through 10/4
October5 Last Great Day (Church of God;
Philadelphia Church of God); Sh’miniAtzeret (Jewish)
6 Simchat Torah (Jewish)13-21 Navaratri (Hindu)14 Muharram, Al Hijra – New Year (Islam)20 Installation of the Scriptures as Guru
Granth (Sikh)22 Dussehra (Hindu)31 Samhain-Beltane (Wicca)
November1 All Saints’ Day (Christian)2 All Souls’ Day (Christian)11 Diwali [Deepavali] (Hindu; Jain; Sikh)12 Goverdhan Puja (Hindu)
2015-2016 SCHOOL YEAR
RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS 13 Birth of B’ab (Baha’i)14 Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)15 Advent/Nativity Fast begins (Eastern
Orthodox Christian)21 The Presentation of the Theotokos to the
Temple (Eastern Orthodox Christian)24 Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom (Sikh)25 Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Birthday (Sikh)26 Day of Covenant (Baha’i)28 Ascension of ‘Abdu’l Baha (Baha’i)29 First Sunday of Advent (Christian)
December7-14 Hanukkah (Jewish)8 Bodhi Day (Buddhist); Immaculate
Conception (Christian)21 Yule (Wicca; Christian)23 Mawlid al-Nabi (Islam)25 Christmas (Christian); The Nativity of
Christ (Eastern Orthodox Christian)26 Zarathosht Diso (Zoroastrian)
January1 Gantan-sai (Shinto)3-10 Holy Convocation (Church of God and
Saints of Christ)5 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib (Sikh)6 Feast of Epiphany (Christian; Eastern Or-
thodox Christian); Feast of Theophany(Eastern Orthodox Christian); Nativity ofChrist (Armenian Orthodox)
7 Feast of Nativity (Orthodox Christian)13 Maghi (Sikh)14 Makar Sankranti (Hindu)17 World Religion Day (Baha’i)25 Tu B’shvat (Jewish)
February2 The Presentation of Our Lord to the Tem-
ple (Eastern Orthodox Christian); Imbolic-Candlemas (Wicca; Christian)
8 Chinese/Lunar New Year (Confucian; Dao-ist; Buddhist)
9 Shrove Tuesday (Christian)10 Ash Wednesday (Christian)12 Vasant Panchami (Hindu)15 Nirvana Day (Buddhist; Jain)26 Intercalary Days (Baha'i) – through 3/1
March
8 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)13 L. Ron Hubbard’s Birthday (Church of
Scientology)14 Clean Monday (Eastern Orthodox Christian)20 Palm Sunday (Christian); Ostara (Wicca);
Naw Ruz (Baha’i)21 Nowruz (Zoroastrian)23 Holi (Hindu); Lord’s Evening Meal
(Christian; Jehovah’s Witness)24 Purim (Jewish); Hola Mohalla (Sikh); Holy
Thursday (Christian)25 Good Friday (Christian); The Annunciation
of the Theotokos (Easter OrthodoxChristian)
27 Easter (Christian)28 Khordad Sal (Zoroastrian); Easter Monday
(Christian)
April4 The Annunciation/The Annunciation of
the Virgin Mary (Eastern OrthodoxChristian; Christian)
8 Chandramana Yugadi (Hindu)13 Baisakhi (Sikh); Souramana Yugadi
(Hindu)13-20 Passover/First Day of Unleavened Bread
(Church of God and Saints of Christ)15 Ram Navami (Hindu)20 First Day of Ridvan (Baha’i)22 Passover (Philadelphia Church of God);
Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)22-23 Theravadin New Year (Buddhist)23 Lazarus Saturday (Eastern Orthodox
Christian); First Day of Unleavened Bread(Church of God)
23-29 Days of Unleavened Bread (PhiladelphiaChurch of God)
23-30 Pesach/Passover (Jewish)24 Palm Sunday (Eastern Orthodox Christian)25 The 11th Panchen Lama’s Birthday
(Buddhist)27 Easter28 Holy Thursday (Eastern Orthodox
Christian); Ninth Day of Ridvan (Baha’i)29 Holy Friday (Eastern Orthodox Christian);
Last Day of Unleavened Bread (Church ofGod)
30 Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)
May1 Twelfth Day of Ridvan (Baha’i); Beltane
(Wicca); Pascha (Eastern OrthodoxChristian)
2 Bright Monday (Eastern OrthodoxChristian)
5 Lailat al Miraj (Islam); Ascension of OurLord (Christian)
12 Yom Ha’Azmaut (Jewish)15 Buddha’s Birthday/Buddha Day – Visakha
Puja (Buddhist); Pentecost (Christian)21 Lailat al Bara’ah (Islam)23 Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i)26 Lag B’Omer (Jewish)28 Ascension of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
June6 Ramadan begins (Islam)12-13 Shavuot (Jewish)16 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib
(Sikh)19 Pentecost (Eastern Orthodox Christian)14 Ascension of Our Lord (Eastern Orthodox
Christian)20 Litha (Wicca)24 Fast of the Holy Apostles (Eastern
Orthodox Christian)
Absences for religious purposes aregoverned by EC 46014 and EC48205(a)(7).
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOLUTIONS, INC.
Inter-Agency Council in Child Abuse & Neglect (ICAN)Nexus XX Training ConferenceSeptember 25, 2015 – Universal City, CAwww.ican4kids.org
California Supervisors of Child Welfare & Attendance (CASCWA)Fall WorkshopCSI CASCWA: Challenges, Strategies & ImplementationsOctober 9, 2015 – Garden Grove, CAwww.cascwa.org
California Association of School Counselors (CASC) 15th AnnualState ConferenceSchool Counselors: Leading Students to the Next LevelOctober 9-10, 2015 – Riverside, CAwww.schoolcounselor-ca.org
105th International Association for Truancy & DropoutPrevention ConferenceSchool and Community Partners Building Bridges to CombatDelinquencyOctober 25-28, 2015 – Memphis, TNwww.iatdp.org
Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)Leadership SummitCourageous Leaders Ignite the Dreams of AllNovember 5-7, 2015 – Sacramento, CAwww.acsa.org
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children andYouth (NAEHCY)Raising to a Brighter Future: Educating All Our Children and YouthNovember 15-17, 2015 – Phoenix, AZwww.naehcy.org
UPCOMING EVENTS RELATED TO STUDENT SERVICES
www.s4edconsultants.org
Addressing School AttendanceProblems with a Particular Emphasis
on Developing EffectiveSARTs and SARBs
Riverside County of Education3868 Twelfth Street–Conference Center
Riverside, CA 92501
$75 Registration Fee(Includes continental breakfast & materials)
Register at – https://sbcss.k12oms.org
Beginning in October 2015, S4 will be rolling out aseries of all-inclusive and easy-to-read publicationsthat serve to guide and inform school personnel,community agency partners, advocates, andparents in specific areas related to student services.The first publication will be focused on studentdiscipline, beginning with an incident that could leadto a suspension, to a recommendation forexpulsion, and ending with the appeal process atthe county level. Stay tuned for more information!
COMING SOON!Student Discipline In California Schools, 2016