Alief ISD adopts 2025–26 student code of conduct with new disciplinary tiers and vaping penalty

Trustees of the Alief Independent School District on Tuesday approved the district's 2025'26 student code of conduct, adopting changes administrators said were required by state law and reflecting new disciplinary categories for certain offenses.

The board voted 6'0for, 0'against to approve the document after a presentation from Janine Porter, the district's chief of staff, and Mindy Robertson, director of student management services, who outlined additions and new consequence ranges meant to bring the handbook into compliance with recent state requirements (House Bill 6) and to address recurring student conduct issues.

Administrators said the most significant structural change is a new Level 4 category for serious or repeat offenses. Mindy Robertson said Level 4 includes items that can require removal to a disciplinary alternative education program; the presentation singled out repeat vaping and possession of vaping devices as a Level 4 offense that will trigger mandatory placement in the district's alternative program when the offense is coded at that level. Robertson described a scaled set of consequences that allows district staff to impose progressive discipline (short-term removal, longer…