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SB 588 Student discipline; school board may modify suspension, if it deems such action to be warranted.

Introduced by: Richard H. Black | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Student discipline; modifying suspensions and expulsions.  Provides that a school board, in its sole discretion, may modify a suspension or expulsion of a student if it deems such action to be warranted and that such decisions of the school board are not subject to judicial review.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Student discipline; modifying long-term suspensions and expulsions. Permits a school board or a committee thereof to reduce the long-term suspension or expulsion of a student or students who received a greater punishment in cases in which the school board or committee determines that (i) two or more students have engaged in closely related offenses arising out of the same incident or circumstances that lead to each student's expulsion or suspension, (ii) the cases resulted in highly disparate disciplinary decisions in which at least one student received a lesser punishment, and (iii) no rational basis exists for the disparate disciplinary decisions. The bill provides that such decisions of the school board or a committee thereof are not subject to judicial review.