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Roanoke County School Board exits closed session, approves student attendance releases and holds expulsion in abeyance
Summary
At its Feb. 25 meeting the Roanoke County School Board certified its closed session, approved release of identified students from compulsory attendance under Va. Code 22.1-254(B)(1), and ordered an expulsion recommendation held in abeyance pending a conduct contract.
The Roanoke County School Board on Feb. 25 voted to come out of closed session, certify compliance with Virginia open-meeting law, approve releases of identified students from compulsory attendance and hold an expulsion recommendation in abeyance pending completion of a conduct contract.
A board member moved that the board come out of closed session and certify that, to the best of each member’s knowledge, the meeting had discussed only matters lawfully exempted from open-meeting requirements under the Code of Virginia. The motion named the personnel exemption (Va. Code § 2.2-3711(A)(1)) and the scholastic-records exemption (Va. Code § 2.2-3711(A)(2)).
Separately, the board approved a motion to release students listed as “RE 2024, 20205 numbers 23 through 24” from compulsory attendance pursuant to Va. Code § 22.1-254(B)(1). The board also moved to hold the recommendation for expulsion of student number 20242025Number006 in abeyance pending the student’s completion of a conduct contract as designated by the superintendent.
The motions were made and seconded during the meeting’s action-from-closed agenda item. The meeting transcript records affirmative roll-call responses from the members present; the transcript does not specify a numerical vote tally in the public record for each action.
Board members certified the closed session under the stated legal exemptions, approved the student attendance releases under the cited statutory authority and instructed that the expulsion recommendation remain on hold while the conduct contract is completed.
Notes: the board identified the legal bases for the closed session in its motion (personnel exemption and scholastic-records exemption) and cited the compulsory-attendance statute when voting to release named students. The transcript identifies the affected student by the board’s internal identifier (student number 20242025Number006) and shows the superintendent’s office will administer the conduct contract process.
