Minutes 04-30-2026 Joint Meeting With School Boards

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5 courses across seven program areas: agricultural education; business, finance, and marketing; career development; computer science, information technology, and technology education; family and consumer sciences; health sciences; and trade and industrial education. She reported that the district offers over 40 industry-recognized credentials, and that last year OCS students earned more than 1,100 of those credentials. She said that CTE concentrators — students who have taken multiple levels of CTE — earn credentials at a rate of 73%, and that the cohort graduation rate for CTE concentrators is regularly 95% or above. She added that approximately 75% of middle school students take at least one CTE course, and almost 70% of high school students have taken at least one. She noted that the district was recognized by the National Association of CTE in their national publication Techniques, highlighting OCS's work. Sheldon Lanier, OCS Chief Equity and Student Achievement Officer, continued the presentation: Slide#6 Chronic Absenteeism Definition A student is defined as chronically absent when they are enrolled in a North Carolina public school for at least 10 school days at any time period during the school year, and whose total number of absences is equal to or greater than 10 percent of the total number of days that the student has been enrolled at any school during a given school year. Student chronic absence differs from both truancy and average daily attendance. Student chronic absence refers to missing so much school, for any type of absence (excused, unexcused, disciplinary), that a student is at risk of falling behind academically. IN I dGAr^. CHALLENGE. INSPIRE. Sheldon Lanier said that chronic absenteeism is defined as a student who is enrolled in a public school for at least 10 days and whose total absences — excused or unexcused or for disciplinary reasons — equal or exceed 10%of the total days enrolled.