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Code of Discipline
Discipline of Students with
Disabilities
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Special Rules Regarding the
Suspension or Removal of Students
with Disabilities
1. The Committee on
Special Education shall:
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Conduct a functional behavioral
assessment to determine why a
student engages in a particular
behavior, and develop or review
behavioral intervention plans
whenever the district is first
suspending or removing a student
with a disability for more than 10
school days in a school year or
imposing a suspension or removal
that constitutes a disciplinary
change in placement, including a
change in placement to an interim
alternative educational setting
for misconduct involving weapons,
illegal drugs or controlled
substances.
If subsequently, a student with
a disability who has a behavioral
intervention plan and who has been
suspended or removed from his/her
current educational placement for
more than 10 school days in a
school year is subjected to a
suspension or removal that does
not constitute a disciplinary
change in placement, the members
of the CSE shall review the
behavioral intervention plan and
its implementation to determine if
modifications are necessary.
If one or more members of the
CSE believe that modifications are
needed, the school district shall
convene a meeting of the CSE to
modify such plan and its
implementation, to the extent the
committee determines necessary.
Conduct a manifestation
determination review of the
relationship between the student’s
disability and the behavior
subject to disciplinary action
whenever a decision is made to
place a student in an interim
alternative educational setting
either for misconduct involving
weapons, illegal drugs or
controlled substances or because
maintaining the student in his
current educational setting poses
a risk of harm to the student or
others; or a decision is made to
impose a suspension that
constitutes a disciplinary change
in placement.
2. The parents of a student
who is facing disciplinary action,
but who has not been determined to
be eligible for services under IDEA
at the time of misconduct, shall
have the right to invoke applicable
procedural safeguards set forth in
federal and state law and
regulations if, in accordance with
federal and state statutory and
regulatory criteria, the district is
deemed to have had knowledge that
their child was a student with a
disability before the behavior
precipitating disciplinary action
occurred. If the district is deemed
to have had such knowledge, the
student will be considered a student
presumed to have a disability for
disciplinary purposes. The
superintendent or building
administrator imposing a suspension
or removal shall be responsible for
determining whether the student is a
student presumed to have a
disability.
- A student will not be
considered a student presumed to
have a disability for discipline
purposes if, upon receipt of
written information supporting a
claim that the district had
knowledge the student was a
student with a disability, the
district either: conducted
an individual evaluation and
determined that the student is not
a student with a disability, or
determined that an evaluation was
not necessary and provided notice
to the parents of such
determination.
- If there is no basis for
knowledge that the student is a
student with a disability prior to
taking disciplinary measures
against the student, the student
may be subjected to the same
disciplinary measures as any other
student's educational placement
determined by the component school
district, which can include
suspension shall be provided with
the opportunity for an informal
conference.
- If a request for an individual
evaluation is made while such
non-disabled student is subjected
to a disciplinary removal, an
expedited evaluation shall be
conducted. Until the expedited
evaluation is completed, the
non-disabled student who is not a
student presumed to have a
disability for discipline purposes
shall remain in the educational
placement determined by the
component school district, which
can include suspension.
3. The school district shall
provide parents with notice of
disciplinary removal.
4. The parents of a student with
disabilities subject to a suspension
of five consecutive school days or
less.
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