Out of School Suspension

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Resolution

Attendance Code

PBIS – OSS/Out of School Suspension

OSS: Out of School Suspension (all students receive homework)

Districts are NOW REQUIRED to permit a student to complete classroom assignments missed during both in-school suspension (ISS) and OSS; it should be noted that Board Policy has already required this, so this should not be a change in current procedures.

SUSPENSION: a suspension is the denial of attendance at school for a period of not more than 10 days.

IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION - the action warrants a call to the student’s parent/guardian, where notice of the suspension hearing is provided and the hearing takes place immediately thereafter, often with the student being suspended for the remainder of the school day and for a determinate period of time. The definition of “immediate suspension” is a District construct and is not defined in statute. Thus, if a student is provided notice and a hearing prior to the imposition of an OSS, the student is effectively suspended and is not the
subject of an emergency removal. Should something occur that prevents the immediate suspension
hearing, until such time that the hearing takes place, the student must be allowed to participate in
learning opportunities; a student CANNOT be forced to remain out of school prior to the hearing
taking place.

Prior to a suspension, the school must give:

Written notice of intended suspension including the reason(s) for the suspension and
Reasonable opportunity at an informal hearing for the student to refute or give an explanation for his/her actions.

The written notice must be provided to the student and should be provided to the student’s parent.

A signed copy of the written notice is to be uploaded to the student's document tab in Infinite Campus.

After a hearing if an out of school suspension is determined, a second resolution type of OSS: Out of School Suspension (all students receive homework), should be ADDED to the original incident.

The original hearing resolution should remain when adding an out of school suspension resolution.
Suspension appeals are filed with the Hearing Office to be heard by a hearing officer on behalf of the Superintendent.

House Bill 410 STUDENT DISCIPLINE CHANGES REMINDER

1. Schools may permit students to make up missed work due to out-of-school suspensions per district
policy; and

2. Schools cannot apply any remaining part or all of a suspension to the following school year, but the
superintendent may require a student to participate in community service or an alternative consequence
for the number of hours equal to the time left on the suspension.

3. Students cannot be expelled or suspended (out of school) for being truant (beginning July 1, 2017);