The following is an excerpt from School Board Policy JEA, Compulsory Attendance, which is available in full on our ElectronicSchoolBoard website. The policy content published below was last amended on September 18, 2018.
Every parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of any child who will have reached the fifth birthday on or before September 30 of any school year and who has not passed the eighteenth birthday shall cause such child to attend a public school or otherwise provide the child with an education in accordance with state law unless the child is exempt from the state’s compulsory attendance requirement.
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