Private schools to get state funds for attendance back
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If approved by the Legislature, the $131.8 billion state budget will restore $30 million for the Comprehensive Attendance Policy mandate on religious and independent schools. Gov. David Paterson originally proposed eliminating the program, which requires teachers to take attendance whenever students move about during the school day. In an amendment to his budget recommendation, the governor reversed his decision to call for the mandate’s elimination but did not include any money to go with it.
Getting rid of the Comprehensive Attendance Policy would have saved the state $44 million in 2009-10. The $30 million would be 68 percent of the $44 million.
The Catholic Advocacy Network in the state has advocated for restoring the program and funding for it.
The Legislature will be voting on the budget this week. The 2009-10 fiscal year begins Wednesday.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
