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Committee adopts changes to teacher-notice rules, penalties and expulsion procedures; adds threat-specific expulsion option
Summary
The committee adopted a subcommittee report and several amendments addressing teacher reemployment notices, a reduced financial penalty for noncompliance, sick-leave bank language, virtual-residency clarifications and revisions to expulsion procedures for firearms and serious threats.
The Senate Education Committee adopted a subcommittee report as amended that revises several school-administration and discipline provisions, including timelines and penalties tied to teacher-notice and reemployment rules and new language on expulsions for firearms and certain threats.
Donna Barton, committee staff, summarized the package of changes and the committee’s edits. Barton said the draft retains a one-year expulsion period for any student who brings a firearm to a school setting but makes that one-year term subject to case-by-case modification: if the hearing is conducted by the district board of trustees the board may modify the period; if the hearing is conducted by another authority, the district superintendent may…
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