A student is incarcerated.  Do we have to mark them excused if they are getting work or if they are attending the facilities' school?  Can we count them as present if they are completing the work?

Unless the LEA is providing the instruction at the detention center, the student is not in attendance at the LEA.  Completing homework does not constitute educational services.  To be counted as in attendance, a student must be receiving instruction from a licensed teacher.

Please explain the AT warning and Error on determining number of days allowed and how they are calculated.

Enrollment days: Days Attended + Days Excused Absence + Days Unexcused Absence

Allowable days: Number of weekdays (minus days for Christmas and Spring breaks) between Begin date and End date if this number is less than total instructional days reported on CID, otherwise allowable days are equal to total instructional days.
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Error:  "There are not enough days between 'Begin Date' and 'End Date' to report X days of attendance and Y days of absence.

Cause: Enrollment days greater than Allowable days
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Warning:  "There are too many days between 'Begin Date' and 'End Date' to report only X days of attendance and Y days of absence. Please examine this record to ensure the student was suspended, expelled, or has some other valid reason for the missing days.  Otherwise, please split the record into multiple records."

Cause:  If the number of Allowable days is greater than 5 and less than or equal 30 and number of Enrollment days is less than 50% of allowable days.

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If the number of Allowable days is greater than 30 and number of Enrollment days is less than 75% of allowable days

*Note: For KG and PK grades, Enrollment days are doubled (if this doubled amount is less than allowable days) when checking for the above warning.

How should we count a student who a doctor completes a “Certificate of Incapacity” in the school attendance code?  I had a severe and profound student that was only able to attend a full week of school 6 weeks during the entire school year.  He is in a degenerative state and when at home, unable to receive homebound services.  Usually not in attendance an average of 2 days per week.  Does this count against our school attendance?

The certificate would be needed for the child that was hospitalized to clarify the prognosis of the condition and help define what treatment is necessary by the school.  It does not excuse absence but shoud help define what the conditions are.  The child might be eligible for the Homebound program and if that is the case, once on it the times away from school are considered days in attendance if related to the disability.

Home bound rules are here:  http://www.doe.in.gov/sservices/pdf/homebound.pdf

Do we count a student on homebound instruction as present on the AT report?

If a student had an extended illness and the parent did not complete the request for homebound instruction, is that student counted absent?

Homebound instruction under the provisions of Article 7 has a distinct requirement of a physician's statement. If the parent has not complied and you have not implemented a homebound program then the student is absent.

If the student is on homebound, then time away from school that is directly related to the disabling condition is considered in attendance in reports to the state.

What constitutes a "half day" and a "full day". For example: If a student is present 3 periods of an 8 period day, are they present for half day and absent a half day?

Yes, the student would be counted present for a half day and absent a half day because it was determined locally, that lunch time is the half day point. The following is the Indiana Administrative Code for computing your attendance counts:

511 IAC 1-3-3 Average Daily Enrollment
Section 3
(b) Attendance shall be taken twice during each full student day, once in the morning session and once in the afternoon session. A student in attendance during any part of the day, up to and including one-half (1/2) of the day, shall be counted as one-half (1/2). A student in attendance for more than one-half (1/2) of the day shall be counted as one (1). A full student instructional day shall be counted as one (1) in determining the number of student instructional days in the regular school year.
(c) Attendance shall be taken once during each partial student instructional day. A student in attendance during any part of the day shall be counted as one-half (1/2). A partial student instructional day counts as one-half (1/2) in determining the number of student instructional days in the regular school year.

I see that you are requesting a full day count on the ME report.  Will school year 2004-2005 DOE-AT report submitted at the end of the year be figured by counting students present a full day if they attend any part of that day?

I have discovered that a student listed in the AT should not be in the AT because he lives in our district but attended another school. How do I remove him?

I am getting warnings which say our last day of school was 6/1/2004, but it wasn't.   Where does the state get the first/last day of school information from?  How can I get it corrected?

Regarding Scenario #8:  Are days attended + unexcused absent + excused absent matched with the enrolled (instructional) days?  If so, wouldn't days suspended (or expelled) cause those numbers to be out of balance?

What do we do with students who transferred to another school midway through the school year? Do we have to include their attendance time in our attendance report?