Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña wants to find out which parents are playing hooky, The Post has learned.
Her office has asked for the attendance records of the city’s 33 community education councils. Each council has 11 members, parents whose kids attend schools in the district.
In some districts, members are so apathetic that councils have been unable to legally conduct business because of the large number of no-shows, a source said.
Fariña, who said she is focusing on the councils that have difficulty getting quorums, wants to see the records from July 1, 2013, to the present.
By law, the parent councils need six members present to have a quorum to conduct a meeting, and six votes to pass measures.
Like community boards and police precinct councils, the parent councils are advisory. But they do provide an annual review of the community district superintendents and weigh in on important school-policy issues.
The chancellor has the authority to appoint new members to fill vacancies, if a council lacks a quorum to do so itself.
A CEC member who is absent from three meetings can be tossed.
A DOE spokesman insisted the inquiry is routine and insisted Fariña wasn’t looking to clean house. “As we do regularly, we review records to see where we can provide support and assistance to our CECs,’’ the spokesman said.
“Additionally, this July is when CEC officer elections are held, which is why quorum is important.”
The CEC members are elected by the votes of PTA presidents, treasurers and secretaries in each school district.
One CEC member told The Post the DOE must have been napping to be asking for attendance records just days before the school year ends.
“They shouldn’t have to ask about attendance. They should have this information already,” the member said.
Mayor de Blasio had long complained that parent voices got short shrift by the Bloomberg administration, especially when it came to co-locating charter schools in regular public-school buildings. The new teachers-union contract requires that 40 minutes each week be set aside for teacher-parent meetings.