ORS 339.510: Student accounting system; goals.

Pursuant to rules of the State Board of Education, the Department of Education shall establish and maintain a student accounting system that has as its minimum goals:

      (1) Providing a timely accounting of students who withdraw from school before graduating or completing the normal course of study;

      (2) Providing reasons why students withdraw from school;

      (3) Identifying patterns in the information and assessment of factors that may assist the department and the school district to develop programs addressing the problems of dropouts; and

      (4) Providing school districts with management tools for assessing which students are dropouts and why they drop out.