Video & Transcript Research : 'student absenteeism'

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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/4/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • require student screen use. require student screen use.
  • class of students at once. class of students at once.
  • And you know, students were more engaged, students were socializing more.
  • students were socializing more. students were socializing more.
  • engagement and reduce chronic student engagement and reduce chronic absenteeism.<01:01:32.000> Excuse
Bills: HF3776, HF3557, HF3585
Summary: The committee first approved the previous day’s minutes, then took up House File 3776, as amended by the A2 amendment, which clarified how the bill would apply to students with IEPs and 504 plans. The bill’s author argued that Minnesota should address screen time for preschool and kindergarten students, saying current law is too broad, that young children are especially vulnerable to developmental and attention harms from screens, and that parents and teachers should have more control over device use. The bill was laid over after discussion. Testimony on HF 3776 was split. Amanda Faye of Minnetonka Public Schools opposed the bill as drafted, saying it would conflict with existing academic standards, READ Act screening requirements, accessibility tools, and local control, and would force districts back to paper-based screening. Katherine Myers of Live More Screen Less supported the bill, citing concerns about early childhood screen exposure and arguing that screen-free time supports child development. Members raised concerns about local control, parental rights, and how to protect students who need devices for accommodations; the author and nonpartisan staff noted that schools can already adopt cell phone policies, but exceptions may be needed for certain students and uses. After laying over HF 3776, the committee began House File 3557. Representative Craft introduced the bill as a voluntary program to promote practical science education and workforce development tied to climate literacy, including a proposed Minnesota Seal of Climate Literacy for high school students. The bill was only introduced before the transcript ended, with no vote or final action recorded on HF 3557.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2026-03-26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • > students.
  • their students. their students.
  • When the solutions to chronic absenteeism are informed directly by the students that they affect, they
  • students, but with students. students, but with students. Thank<01:29:29.600> you.
  • I do feel like every student who has an issue with chronic absenteeism needs to be looked at differently
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So putting a student out in the hall, is that consistent with that student out of class? Yeah.
  • Our educators want to ensure all students learn, all students.
  • Sometimes a student may threaten the safety of that teacher or other students.
  • A student uses profanity loudly at a teacher and other students.
  • Educators want all students to learn, all students. And they also want safe classrooms.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Our educators want to end all students learn. All students.
  • Sometimes a student may threaten the safety of that teacher or other students.
  • A student uses profanity loudly at a teacher and other students.
  • Educators want all students to learn, all students. also want safe classrooms.
  • plan for that student.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • First, student safety.
  • We know students learn when they learn better when they feel better and access to this med during the
  • school day can help a student focus on their learning instead of their discomfort.
  • Texas law already requires students to learn about parenting and paternity awareness.
  • Students can now focus on getting the support that they need and we will save lives.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I could tell right away it was one of your students.
  • dedicated to alternative education students.
  • Understanding the why behind student absenteeism is deeply complex.
  • I'm a 2024 graduate and a student advocate.
  • Some students lived an hour away by bus, which meant school started at eight something, requiring students
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/3/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:04:29.720> students curriculum to prepare students students curriculum to prepare students
  • Understanding the why behind student absenteeism is deeply complex.
  • <00:32:28.799> absenteeism<00:32:29.760> is<00:32:30.000> deeply behind student
  • absenteeism is deeply behind student absenteeism is deeply complex<00:32:31.279> we've<00:32:
  • absenteeism is complex.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 6th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • to call this student by preferred pronouns, essentially enabling this behavior which we see 80% of students
  • It wouldn't be just assisting a student.
  • I'm sorry, I don't have a student named Apollo, but I do have a student named Maria.
  • Trying to deny that will not help students.
  • This will lead to what is best for students.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 6th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so the programs that I've seen that have worked, and some of our A students have tutored our students
  • That B student can become an A student. That C student can become a B student.
  • Members, the committee substitute protects students' privacy by blurring out student faces. in aligning
  • , and it exonerates the students.
  • Parent of a current student.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 20th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Allen for focusing on student attendance and communication with families.
  • When students frequently miss school, they fall behind. ...behind.
  • In a Texas school district, a student used AI to generate nude images of another student, and when the
  • Second, by providing an exception for students with disabilities, school districts and students have
  • This case actually arose out of a case where I was representing a student, and the student was in the
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:04:24.720> or<00:04:25.040> their student or how much a student or their student
  • the students who need the most. the students who need the most.
  • Riley is a CFANS student and the president of our undergraduate student government.
  • Um, to your student testifier.
  • Um, to your student testifier.
Bills: HF4266
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 18th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Students who are chronically absentee, that means that they missed 10% of academic classes.
  • In many cases, however, there are many reasons behind chronic absenteeism that students cannot control
  • in state law, include chronic absenteeism. absenteeism as an at-risk category of students and implement
  • Unfortunately, chronic absenteeism has serious consequences for students.
  • Because I do think, personally, that students who suffer. or from chronic absenteeism for a variety of
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 18th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we're going to spend a lot of time today talking about student discipline and classroom.
  • Those systems with your students and I remember thinking what what do I have to rehearse with my students
  • Students don't know how to do those things. don't have a system in place to train them on how to do that
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:06 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • of our absenteeism is coming from, from these foster students that cannot make the classroom.
  • our absenteeism is coming from us from these foster students that cannot make the classroom.
  • This avenue is for student housing and student life. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
  • This avenue is for student housing and student life. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
  • student athlete.
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 08:39 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • students, all of our students, while honoring New Mexico's students, our bilingual students, all of
  • : students with dyslexia, students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and students who appear
  • Students need more time to learn.
  • Students need more time to learn.
  • But I'm concerned over our students. I'm concerned over the over-identifying our students.
Bills: SB234, SB210, SB243, SB244, SM16, HB8