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Bill Would Reward Low Absenteeism

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From Times staff and wire reports

Assemblywoman Helen Thomson (D-Davis) has introduced a bill to rectify earlier legislation that denied certain California school districts with low absence rates rewards that others could earn.

The earlier legislation, passed in 1997, changed the way absences are counted and was intended to reward districts that reduced their absence rates.

But certain districts lost out on financial rewards because their absence rates were already low before the legislation took effect. Thomson’s bill, AB 193, would appropriate $390 million to supplement the budgets of these districts.

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