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Cedar Springs board votes 5-1 to keep student suspended pending interventions
Summary
The Cedar Springs Public Schools Board of Education voted 5-1 May 29 to keep a student suspended through the 2024–25 school year until required 'STAT summary of action interventions' are completed; one member voted against the motion.
The Cedar Springs Public Schools Board of Education voted 5-1 on May 29 to keep a student identified in the minutes as 'Student 24.25.05' suspended through the remainder of the 2024–25 school year pending completion of specified interventions. Trent, a committee member who moved the action, was supported by Traci Slager, the board secretary.
According to the minutes, the motion directed that the student "remain suspended through the remainder of 2024-2025 school year indefinitely until/when all STAT summary of action interventions have been met." The motion passed with votes from Gilmore, Patin, Reed, Shoffner and Slager; Lund recorded the sole nay. The minutes list the motion under Open Meetings Act Section 8(b) as the legal basis for the closed-session and subsequent disciplinary action.
Board members first entered a closed session earlier in the meeting citing the same legal provision and the same student reference; that closed session ran from 6:03 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. The minutes state that the board later took the public action described above. The minutes do not specify the content of the interventions or who is responsible for approving the student's return to school.
The minutes record no further conditions or dates for review beyond the requirement that the "STAT summary of action interventions" be met. The superintendent was noted in the minutes as present and responsible for follow-up with community members after public comment, but the minutes do not specify additional staff assignments or next review dates for the disciplinary matter.
