The short answer to “is vacation an excused absence from school?” is it depends. However, there’s so much more to consider in ...

It was Dec. 16 and the student, a sixth-grader, had already missed 20 days of school due to unexcused absences.

One Middle Tennessee school districtwill no longer accept doctor's notes to excuse student absences. Lawrence County School System officials announced the new attendance policy during a June 26 board ...