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1999 SESSION

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HB 477 Educational services for expelled students.

Introduced by: Franklin P. Hall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Educational services for certain students and report required. Requires each school board to provide educational services to any student of compulsory school attendance age who is suspended for more than 10 days, excluded, or expelled from school attendance. Such services must accommodate the student's instructional needs, and may be provided through a regional, or any local education program which satisfies the compulsory school attendance requirement. School boards may include such students in the calculation for average daily membership. However, school boards are not required to provide these services to students who have been excused from school attendance under § 22.1-257, or who violate the school board's student conduct policies, or commit offenses required to be reported to the division superintendent or law-enforcement agencies during their period of suspension, exclusion, or expulsion. Further, school boards are required to report annually the number of students receiving such educational services to the Department of Education, including the projected need and costs of such services, and the total of local funds expended to support the services. The Department of Education is required to compile and analyze the data obtained from the school divisions and report such information annually to the Governor and General Assembly, beginning December, 1999.

This bill is a recommendation of the Standing Joint Subcommittee on School Dropout Prevention.


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