Signed by Governor John Lynch

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that raises the mandatory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

Highlights:

-Exempts children attending private school, receiving home education, excused by the superintendent, accepted into a post-secondary education, or meeting the graduation requirement from the mandatory attendance (242:1). - Allows school districts to create bylaws relating to habitual truants and those between the ages of six and eighteen that do not attend school (242:2).

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Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that raises the mandatory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

Highlights:

- Requires that children between the ages of six and eighteen attend the public school they are assigned to within their district [sec. 1 (I)]. - Exempts children attending private school, those receiving home education, those excused by the superintendent, children accepted into a post-secondary education, children meeting the graduation requirement, those who have adopted alternative learning plans and those temporarily excused by parental request from the mandatory attendance [sec. 1 (I)(a-g)]. - Allows school districts to create bylaws relating to habitual truants and those between the ages of six and eighteen that do not attend school [sec. 2].

Full Bill Text