Section 339.510 - Student accounting system; goalsPursuant to rules of the State Board of Education, the Department of Education shall establish and maintain a student accounting system that has as its minimum goals:
(1) Providing a timely accounting of students who withdraw from school before graduating or completing the normal course of study;(2) Providing reasons why students withdraw from school;(3) Identifying patterns in the information and assessment of factors that may assist the department and the school district to develop programs addressing the problems of dropouts; and(4) Providing school districts with management tools for assessing which students are dropouts and why they drop out.