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Policy committee reviews suspension and expulsion changes, keeps prior-notice language for due process
Summary
The committee reviewed proposed edits to Policy 233 on suspension and expulsion, debated prior-notice and informal hearing timing, clarified suspension durations (1–10 days, and extensions up to 15 days in specific cases), and voted to move the draft to first read after minor wording fixes.
The Central York Policy Committee reviewed proposed revisions to Policy 233 on suspension, exclusion and expulsion and agreed to send the draft to first read after staff incorporates agreed edits, including restoration of a prior-notice sentence that committee members said safeguards student due process.
Committee discussion focused on definitions and procedures for suspension and expulsion, the distinction between short suspensions (up to three days) and suspensions that trigger an informal hearing (more than three days), and how long a district may exclude a student while awaiting a formal hearing. Members also asked staff to clarify several gendered pronouns and ordering issues in the existing text.
Under the proposed revisions,…
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