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Legal Requirements for Student Discipline: Ensuring Due Process for All Students

Date:

March 28, 2025 @ 8:30 am – 2:30 pm

Price:

$198

Instructor(s):

Adrienne Shea

Event Type:

Virtual

Professional Learning Hours:

5

Intended Audience:

K-12 principals, assistant principals, administrators involved in discipline decisions, special education administrators, special education case managers.

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Participants must attend all events:

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This workshop will highlight a school’s obligation to provide students with due process when implementing suspensions and expulsions and will identify specific steps you must take to protect student rights. The workshop will also review the specific due process requirements and other rights to be addressed when discipling students with disabilities. This will include a discussion of when disciplinary removals constitute a “change of placement” under the law; when and how to conduct a manifestation determination; and special considerations for disciplinary incidents involving drugs, alcohols, weapons, or serious bodily injury.

Participants will:

  • How to provide all students with their due process rights prior to suspension.
  • The different due process considerations and procedures associated with short-term suspensions and long-term suspensions.
  • When parents have the right to a hearing before the school board to contest a discipline decision.
  • The additional due process rights provided to students with disabilities under Section 504 and IDEA in connection with discipline decisions.
  • When and how to conduct a “manifestation determination” to comply with Section 504 and IDEA when disciplining students with disabilities.

Presented by

Adrienne Shea