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Roanoke County School Board exits closed session and approves long-term suspension, upholds expulsion recommendation

May 23, 2025 | ROANOKE CO PBLC SCHS, School Districts, Virginia


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Roanoke County School Board exits closed session and approves long-term suspension, upholds expulsion recommendation
The Roanoke County School Board reconvened in public and voted to approve two disciplinary actions after a closed-session discussion of student matters.

Board members certified that the closed session addressed matters exempted from open‑meeting requirements under a provision of the Code of Virginia cited in the meeting transcript. Following the certification, the board approved a motion to impose a 364‑day long‑term suspension for “student 20 24 20 25, number 10,” and later voted to uphold a recommendation of expulsion for “student 20 24 20 25, number 12.”

A school board member read the motion on the first action in public: “I move to long term suspend student 20 24 20 25, number 10, for 364 days.” The transcript records that a second was made and the clerk then called the roll. After the second motion on the second student to uphold an expulsion recommendation, the clerk again called the roll and the board recorded affirmative votes.

The board also completed the required certification that “only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under this chapter and only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting was convened” were discussed. The transcript quotes the certification motion as citing a Code of Virginia reference (rendered in the record as “Dash 3 7 1 1 8 2 of the Code of Virginia”).

The meeting record does not identify the students by name, and the board used the redacted numeric identifiers that appear in the transcript. The actions were presented and approved on the public record immediately after the closed session; no additional public testimony or hearings on these specific disciplinary cases are shown in the meeting transcript.

The board’s public actions were limited to formal motions and roll‑call votes recorded in the transcript; the record does not show any further direction to staff, nor does it include additional factual summaries about the incidents that led to the disciplinary recommendations.

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