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Background Information and Statutory Authority

VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATION Model Guidance for Positive and Preventive Code of Student Conduct Policy and Alternatives to Suspension 2018-2019. Background Information and Statutory Authority.

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Background Information and Statutory Authority

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  1. VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATIONModel Guidance for Positive and Preventive Code of Student Conduct Policy and Alternatives to Suspension2018-2019

  2. Background Information and Statutory Authority The Virginia Board of Education is required by law (§ 22.1-279.6. of the Code of Virginia) to establish guidelines and develop model policies for codes of student conduct to aid local school boards in the implementation of such policies. The Code of Virginia § 22.1-16.6 directed the Board of Education to “establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards.”

  3. Background Information and Statutory Authority (continued) In 2018, General Assembly amended §22.1-277 and prohibits, except for certain acts, students in preschool through grade three from being suspended for more than three school days or expelled from attendance at school. § 22.1-276.01 and § 22.1-277.05 of the Code of Virginia redefined long-term suspensions as “any disciplinary action whereby a student is not permitted to attend school for 11 to 45 school days.”

  4. Development Process Children’s Cabinet Classrooms Not Courtrooms Office of School Improvement Focus Groups Virginia Student Support and Conduct Committee Reframing Discipline Conference Focus Groups

  5. Preventive and Positive Approaches to Discipline Safe, Supportive School Climate Focus on Equity Professional Learning Clear Behavioral Expectations Leveled Administrative Responses Learning Supports Family and Community Partnerships

  6. Approach to Discipline • Student Behavior Descriptors • Behavior Categories • Guide social emotional learning • Leveled Administrative Responses that include • Interventions • Supports • Consequences

  7. Why Alternatives to Suspension?The Effects of Exclusion Hanover Research: Alternatives to Suspension @2012 Hanover Research, District Administration Practice, pg 10. • Negative school environments of distrust and alienation • Higher risk of retention in grade • Higher rates of misbehavior • Lower academic achievement • Chronic Absenteeism • Higher dropout rates

  8. Why Alternatives to Suspension?The Effects of Exclusion continued Hanover Research: Alternatives to Suspension @2012 Hanover Research, District Administration Practice, pg 10. • Restricted access to school services that might improve behavior • Harm to healthy adult relationships • Unsupervised time and increased opportunity for delinquency for suspended students • Higher risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system

  9. Alternatives to Suspension • Tiered Systems of Support • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports • School Counseling Programs • Social Emotional Learning • Restorative Approaches • Student Assistance Programming • Family Engagement

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