Board reviews rewritten Code of Student Conduct with level‑by‑level discipline guide, mandatory actions and implementation plan

Cynthia Lugo Hampton, director of student conduct, presented a comprehensive revision of Marion County’s Code of Student Conduct at the June 19 work session, reorganizing the document to make discipline expectations clearer, adding a level‑based discipline reference guide and laying out a district implementation plan for training and rollout.

Lugo Hampton said the update was guided by Florida statute 1006.07 and by a committee made up of 42 volunteers—school administrators, counselors, district staff and association representatives—who met weekly to rewrite offense definitions, consequences and guidance. ‘‘This is the heart of the code, student discipline,’’ she said, describing a new quick reference guide that lists an offense title, an offense definition, level‑by‑level severity descriptions and a column for…