Religious Observance
A student shall be released from school, as an excused absence, for the purpose of observing a religious holiday.

The Superintendent shall develop and distribute to teachers appropriate procedures regarding student absences for a religious holiday which include a list of religious holidays on which students shall be excused from attendance, how teachers are notified of a student's impending absence, and the State law requirement that teachers provide the student an equivalent opportunity to make up any examination, study, or work requirement.

Religious Instruction
A student shall be released from school for a day or portion of a day for the purpose of religious instruction. A letter, requesting the student's absence and written by the student's parent(s)/guardian(s), must be given to the Building Principal before the day the student is to be absent.

LEGAL REF.:  Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 775 ILCS 35/5
105 ILCS 5/26-1 and 5/26-2b.

CROSS REF.:  7:70 (Attendance, Tardiness, and Truancy)

ADOPTED:  November 22, 2004