The short answer to “is vacation an excused absence from school?” is it depends. However, there’s so much more to consider in this issue than just how your school district classifies taking kids out ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Tenn. (WJW) — A new school absence policy in one southern Tennessee county states that a doctor’s note is no longer efficient enough to excuse a student from missing school. “Absences ...

No paper note for a student’s absence will be no problem this year in the Allegheny Valley School District. One of the additions in the Springdale-area district will be an electronic excuse form for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawrence County School System officials announced the new attendance policy during a June 26 board meeting, where Director of ...

Is your kid sick? One Tennessee school district says, Suck it up. The Lawrence County School System is under fire for a strict new attendance policy that refuses to excuse students for being sick, ...