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2001 SESSION

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HB 1706 Exclusion from public school attendance.

Introduced by: Kristen J. Amundson | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Exclusion from public school attendance. Allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for more than 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of the offense for which the disciplinary action was imposed. To exclude a student, the school board must find that the student presents a danger to the other students or staff of the school division after providing notice to the student and his parents of the possibility of exclusion and after the superintendent reviews the case. Current law specifies that the offense warranting exclusion must be one involving a violation of school board policies related to destruction of school property or privately-owned property while located on school property, weapons, alcohol or drugs, or for the willful infliction of injury to another person. The present exclusion period for expulsion cannot be for longer than one year and for greater-than-30-day suspensions may not exceed the length of the suspension. This bill eliminates the one-year cap for the period of time a student who has been expelled or for whom admission has been withdrawn may be excluded from school attendance in another school division. A date upon which the student may petition for readmission must be issued by the relevant school board, committee thereof, or superintendent or designee rendering the initial exclusion, and, upon denial of the petition, a date for subsequent petitions set by the school board. This provision allows school divisions excluding students who have been expelled from another school division in the Commonwealth to accept or reject any or all of any conditions for readmission that may have been imposed on the student by the expelling school division. The excluding school division cannot impose additional conditions for readmission. Current law permits local school boards to impose conditions for readmission to school on expelled students.


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