Regular attendance is essential in providing District students with a high quality of instruction. Certificated staff will have available twelve (12) days of sick/two of which can be used as personal leave per school year with an accumulation total of 90 days. Support employees have available twelve (12) days of sick/two of which can be used as personal leave per year with an accumulation total of 90 days.

When employees are absent more than eight (8) days in any semester or more than twenty (20) days per school year, their absence is considered excessive. The Superintendent will review each incident of excessive absence and may require the employee to provide medical documentation or may consider disciplinary actions up to and including termination.