Lemon Grove board approves suspended enforcement of expulsion for student in closed-session vote

The Lemon Grove School District Governing Board voted 5-0 in closed session on March 14 to approve the administrative panel’s recommendation of suspended enforcement of expulsion for student #2223-381, the board reported in open session.

The action, taken under Education Code 48918, allows the student to remain in the district on an alternative campus under a rehabilitation plan and with an extended timeline for the suspended enforcement of expulsion. The board’s report did not list a mover or seconder for the closed-session action; the report states the vote was unanimous (5–0).

Board members present for the meeting and listed in the public record were Dr. Javier Ayala, Dorinda Miller, Yajaira Preciado, Cheryl Robertson and Greg Shibley. The meeting agenda noted that Mr. Dane Anderson and Mrs. Bianca Anderson would address the board regarding a violent attack on their daughter at Vista La Mesa Academy in connection with the expulsion matter; their remarks are available on the meeting video linked in the agenda materials.

The district’s report said the student will continue with Lemon Grove School District on an alternative campus under the rehabilitation plan presented to and reviewed by the administrative panel. No further details about the rehabilitation plan or timeline were included in the board’s open-session report; those implementation details are to be handled by the administrative panel and district staff.

The decision to approve suspended enforcement was reported out in open session at 6:24 p.m.; the board convened to closed session at 5:10 p.m. for personnel and student-discipline matters. The board’s action was recorded as a closed-session vote and summarized for the public during the meeting’s open-session report of actions taken in closed session.