{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-76-1b","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 76, § 1B","heading":"Pupil absence notification program","body":"Section 1B. The school committee of each city, town or regional school district shall have a pupil absence notification program in each of its schools. The program shall be designed to ensure that each school notifies a parent or guardian of the child's absence if the school has not received notification of the absence from the parent or guardian within 3 days of the absence.\nEach school committee shall have a policy of notifying the parent or guardian of a student who has at least 5 days in which the student has missed 2 or more periods unexcused in a school year or who has missed 5 or more school days unexcused in a school year. The notification policy shall require that the school principal or headmaster, or a designee, make a reasonable effort to meet with the parent or guardian of a student who has 5 or more unexcused absences to develop action steps for student attendance. The action steps shall be developed jointly and agreed upon by the school principal or headmaster, or a designee, the student and the student's parent or guardian and with input from other relevant school personnel and officials from relevant public safety, health and human service, housing and nonprofit agencies.","path":["Part I","Title XII","Chapter 76"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXII/Chapter76/Section1B","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:21:29Z","sha256":"31dcfe6b746eee137273cea4c48e06af7017a43b8288ee69d299f69e53c0dc00","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-76-1a","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-76-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}