Attendance Accounting and Instructional Time (2024)

California law requires all children to attend school and bases the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)—the largest source of funding available to local educational agencies (LEAs)—primarily on average daily attendance (ADA). In addition to the LCFF, other large sources of K-12 education funding use ADA in determining LEA entitlements, including, but not limited to, state special education and the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program.

Instructional time is a key foundational element to LEAs generating ADA and ensuring ADA-based funding. There are myriad laws and regulations in place that govern both student attendance and instructional time. These laws have a rich history, provide the basis for determining and maintaining funding, and serve the dual purpose of valuing student attendance at school as well as ensuring equitable levels of instructional time throughout California.

Attendance accounting and instructional time laws have experienced numerous legislative changes over the past few years and have requirements that are unique to LEA types and student settings. Noncompliance with these laws can result in the loss of funding. Although overall, attendance rates are improving, they continue to be lower than pre-pandemic levels, which adds additional pressure to LEAs to ensure that all attendance claimed meets these requirements to fully capture all ADA generated.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide attendees with the tools needed to meet the many attendance accounting and instructional time requirements on both programmatic and fiscal fronts. Recent changes in ADA and instructional time laws will be covered, as will the many requirements that must be met by LEAs to maintain compliance.

Who Should Attend?

Business, fiscal services, and programmatic staff—whether new to or experienced with the implementation of student attendance and instructional time requirements. This webinar is comprehensive in scope and provides attendees with a solid understanding of key elements of the primary sources of state funding for LEAs.

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