Law also mandates school officials to contact parents if a student is absent without prior notification.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation into law on Friday requiring parents to notify officials when their child will be absent from school. The law also stipulates that school officials must contact a parent if a student is absent without prior notification to the school. “Community leaders and parents will now be required to take immediate, personal responsibility for the children they must care for and protect,” state Senator Kevin O’Toole, who initiated the new law, said in a press release. “Just a few seconds of accountability can be enough to save lives and solve abductions.” The bill, known as Tabitha’s Law, is named for a Tennessee teenager, Tabitha Tudor, who has been missing since 2003. Tudor's parents were not aware she did not …
Tabitha's Law requires parents to notify schools when their child will be absent. Law also requires school officials to contact parents if a student is absent without prior notification.
Governor Chris Christie signed legislation into law on Friday requiring parents to notify officials when their child will be absent from school. The law also stipulates that school officials must contact a parent if a student is absent without prior notification to the school. The bill, known as Tabitha’s Law, is named for a Tennessee teenager who, unbeknownst to her parents, did not attend school one day in 2003. The school did not contact Tudor’s parents to tell them she was absent. They did not know she was missing until almost 5 p.m. that day. She remains missing. State 40th District Assemblyman Scott Rumana is the primary sponsor of the bill Christie signed. “Unanticipated absences can be a sign of a bigger problem, which can be …
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