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Committee backs HB 236, allowing school boards to consider convictions, withdrawals-in-lieu-of-discipline and habitual truancy when deciding enrollment
Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 236 to the House floor with a "do pass" recommendation. The bill would let local school boards deny or condition enrollment for students with certain adjudications or convictions, students withdrawn in lieu of discipline, or students deemed habitually truant, while setting a written due-process procedure.
An Idaho House committee voted to send House Bill 236 to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation after a roughly 40-minute hearing in which sponsors, educators and parents debated how the bill would affect students who are adjudicated, convicted, habitually truant or withdrawn in lieu of discipline.
Representative Sean Dygert (District 23) introduced the bill to the committee, saying it "makes it very specific" what school boards may consider when denying attendance and that the measure has "no fiscal impact." Dygert said the bill would allow school districts to record when a student has been "withdrawn in lieu of discipline" so the receiving district can take that history into account rather than allowing what Dygert described…
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