Garfield Re-2 Policies

JKG

Expulsion Prevention

It is the belief of the Board that all available interventions and prevention services should be explored to help students who are at risk of expulsion before expulsion becomes a necessary consequence. The principal of each school shall work with the professional staff to identify students who are at risk of suspension or expulsion.  Among those students who may be at risk are those who have been or are likely to be declared habitually truant or habitually disruptive.

 

The district, working with the student’s parent/guardian, shall provide students who are identified as at risk of suspension or expulsion with a plan to provide necessary support services to help them avoid expulsion.  Services may include:

 

1. Educational services (tutoring, alternative educational programs, or vocational programs that provide instruction in the academic areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies).

 

2. Counseling services.

 

3.  Drug or alcohol addiction treatment programs.

 

4. Family prevention services.

 

In some cases, a remedial discipline plan may be the means by which various intervention and prevention services are identified and made available to a student.  Support services may be provided through agreements with appropriate local governmental agencies, appropriate state agencies, community-based organizations, and institutions of higher education.

 

The failure of the school district to identify a student for participation in an expulsion prevention program or the failure of sucha  program to remediate a student’s behavior shall not be grounds to prevent school personnel from proceeding with appropriate disciplinary measures.

 

Adopted: July 14, 1998

Revised: July 25, 2000

Revised: September 25, 2012

Revised: September 10, 2013

 

LEGAL REF.: C.R.S. 22-14-101 et seq. (dropout prevention and student re-engagement)

C.R.S. 22-33-202 (identification of at-risk students)

C.R.S. 22-33-204 (services for at-risk students)

C.R.S. 22-33-204.5 (students in facility schools shall be considered at-risk)

C.R.S. 22-33-205 (grants for services to expelled, at-risk and truant students)

 

                           CROSS REFS.; Suspension/Expulsion of Students

 

Garfield School District No. Re-2, Rifle, Colorado