Bowling Green ISD places student at learning center for minimum 45 days after disciplinary hearing

The Bowling Green Independent School District Board of Education voted June 9 to place student #242510 at the Bowling Green Learning Center for a minimum of 45 school days and require the student to receive counseling during summer 2025 and school-provided counseling during the 2025–26 school year. The motion was made in closed session and carried on a unanimous show-of-hands vote. The board authorized the closed session under KRS 61.810(1)(f), the statute permitting discussion of hearings on disciplinary actions. The motion to go into closed session was made by Board member Cierra Waller and seconded by Vice Chair Lisa Allen. After the closed session, the board returned to open session and approved placing the student at the learning center with the specified counseling requirement; the motion to place the student was made by Allen and seconded by Waller. The action is a formal placement decision; the transcript records no additional public discussion of the underlying facts of the disciplinary case. The board directed school staff to determine timing for the student’s return to regular educational placement after the minimum 45-school-day period and to continue counseling services while the student is in the learning center and afterward in the 2025–26 school year. Under the board’s recorded vote, all named board members present voted yes. No other conditions, alternate placements, or appeal procedures were specified in the meeting record.