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Chesapeake School Board votes to expel a student after closed session
Summary
After a closed session called under the Code of Virginia for student disciplinary and real estate matters, the board approved the superintendent's recommendation to expel a student identified by student number 71026EDash1; the motion passed unanimously.
Superintendent Dr. Cotton recommended the board expel student number 71026EDash1 following the closed-session discussion and asked the board to approve the disciplinary action.
"I recommend that student number 71026EDash1 be expelled under the conditions discussed," Dr. Cotton said before the board took a formal vote. John McCormick moved to approve the recommendation and Elijah Colon seconded the motion. Clerk Angie Smith announced the motion carried with all board members present voting yes.
The board had convened the closed session under authority cited from the Code of Virginia to consider student disciplinary matters and real estate disposition. Vice Chair Mike Lemonia read the language invoking the statute before members voted to move into closed session. The record the board read upon return to open session stated that only the topics specified in the motion were discussed.
No additional details about the disciplinary conditions were offered in open session; the superintendent characterized the action as "the recommendation for expulsion under the conditions discussed" and the board approved the motion. The action is recorded as a formal expulsion; the transcript cites the student as "student number 71026EDash1."
