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September is attendance awareness month in Ohio. In honor of the month, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (ODEW) has issued new resources to support boards of education in their work to encourage regular school attendance. 

As OSBA’s legal division discussed in the Legal Ledger Sidebar earlier this summer, the Ohio biennial budget bill, House Bill 96, included several changes to state laws on attendance. On Sept. 3, in…