Disciplinary Procedures for Students With Disabilities

Drafts for Review
Draft policy 5340, Disciplinary Procedures for Students With Disabilities:



Current policy 5-55, Disciplinary Procedures for Students with Disabilities

Current regulation 5-55, Disciplinary Procedures for Students with Disabilities

Subcommittee Recommendations
10-2-2019 Policy Review

Documents / Resources
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. "Dear Colleague letter on PBIS in IEPs." August 1, 2016. 

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. "Dear Colleague Letter on the Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline." January 8, 2014. 

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Technical Assistance Center. "Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports." 

Michelle M. Massar, Kent McIntosh, and Bert M. Eliason, University of Oregon. "Do Out-of-School Suspensions Prevent Future Exclusionary Discipline?" May 1, 2015. 

Russel Skiba, Jeffrey Spraque. "Safety Without Suspensions." Educational Leadership, September 1, 2008. 

Arris Foley. "California bans schools from suspending students solely for disruptive behavior." The Hill, September 10, 2019. 

Jessica Swain-Bradway, Sarah Lindstrom, Catherine Bradshaw, Kent McIntosh. "What are the Economic Costs of Implementing SWPBIS in Comparison to the Benefits from Reducing Suspensions?" November 8, 2017. 

Tary Tobin, Rob Horner, Claudia Vincent, Jessica Swain-Bradway. "If Discipline Referral Rates for the School as a Whole are Reduced, Will Rates for Students with Disabilities also be Reduced?" October 6, 2012. 

Ross Greene / Lives in the Balance. "Hope and Solutions." 

J. Stuart Ablon. "Rethinking Challenging Kids - Where There's a Skill There's a Way." 

Ross Greene. "Kids Do Well if They Can." September 10, 2010. 

Ross Greene. "Three Options for Solving Problems." September 12, 2010. 

Crystal Shin, Angela Ciolfi, and Dewey Cornell, "Prevention v. Punishment: Threat Assessment, School Suspensions, and Racial Disparities." December 18, 2013. 

Angela A. Ciolfi, Crystal Shin, and Jeree Harris. "Educate Every Child." November 17, 2011. 

Rosemarie Allen. "School suspensions are an adult behavior." Aug 1, 2016. 

TJ Rumler. "What Are We Doing About School Suspensions." May 17, 2018. 

National School Boards Association. "Addressing the Out-of-school Suspension Crisis: A Policy Guide for School Board Members." April 2013. 

National Education Association. "Report of the NEA Committee on Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline." April 24, 2016. 

LCPS Discipline Task Force. 

LCPS Discipline Task Force / DTF Committee Recommendations. August 22, 2013. 

LCPS Code of Conduct / Student Discipline Guidelines 2018-2019. March, 2019.