Highlights:

• Requires a suspension or expulsion from a charter school or a university for gifted pupils to be consistent with such punishments in certain public schools (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a plan for a form of restorative discipline for public schools to include consideration of certain data relating to pupil discipline (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the superintendent to require implementation of an alternative plan for restorative discipline if the school fails to take certain actions relating to disproportionality in pupil discipline (Sec. 1).  

• Requires certain actions by a school during the beginning of a student suspension for committing certain acts (Sec. 1)

• Amends the persons to whom the appeals  need to be made (Sec. 1).

Signed by Governor Joseph Lombardo

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes new rules regarding the expulsion of students from private schools.

Highlights:

• Requires a suspension or expulsion from a charter school or a university for gifted pupils to be consistent with such punishments in certain public schools (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a plan for a form of restorative discipline for public schools to include consideration of certain data relating to pupil discipline (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the superintendent to require implementation of an alternative plan for restorative discipline if the school fails to take certain actions relating to disproportionality in pupil discipline (Sec. 1).  

• Requires certain actions by a school during the beginning of a student suspension for committing certain acts (Sec. 1)

• Amends the persons to whom the appeals  need to be made (Sec. 1).

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