Placement of Students with Disabilities
How are discipline and placement handled for students receiving Section 504 or special education services?
All disciplinary actions regarding students with disabilities (504 or special education under the IDEA) shall be conducted in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
A student with a disability shall not be removed from his or her current placement for disciplinary reasons and/or pending appeal to the Board of Directors for more than ten days without action by the student’s admission, review, and dismissal committee to determine appropriate services in the interim and otherwise in accordance with applicable law. If a special education due process appeal to a TEA special education hearing officer is made, the student with a disability shall remain in the then current education setting in place at the time such appeal is noticed to LTS, unless LTS and the student’s parent(s) agree otherwise.
If a student’s IEP includes a behavior improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan, the student’s ARD committee shall review the plan at least annually, and more frequently if appropriate, to address the following:
- 1. Changes in a student’s circumstances that may impact the student’s behavior, such as
- a. placement of the student in a different educational setting;
- b. an increase or persistence in disciplinary actions taken regarding the student for similar types of behavioral incidents;
- c. a pattern of unexcused absences; or
- d. an unauthorized unsupervised departure from an educational setting
- 2. The safety of the student or others