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School Discipline Guide

Minnesota Students with Disabilities - Parent Information

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1 – Introduction
2 – Begin the Discipline Guide
- 3 – On IEP and the discipline is?
  - 4 – Recess detention
  - 5 – Removal from class
  - 6 – Sent home before the end of the school day
  - 7 – Restraint or removal from school by a peace officer
  - 8 – In-school suspension
  - 9 – Suspension from the bus
    - 10 – IEP includes transportation
    - 11 – IEP does not include transportation
  - 12 – Out-of-school suspension
    - 13 – Up to five days
    - 14 – More than five days
    - 15 – More than 10 consecutive school days or more than 10 total school days for this school year
      - 16 – Manifestation determination meeting required
        
        17 – Manifestation determination meeting outcome
        
        18 – YES to at least one question
        
        19 – Conduct DID involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
        
        20 – Conduct did NOT involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
        
        21 – NO to both questions
        
        22 – Conduct DID involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
        
        23 – Conduct did NOT involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
      - 24 – NO manifestation determination meeting required
  - 25 – Expulsion or exclusion
    - 26 – Manifestation determination meeting outcome
      - 27 – YES to at least one question
        
        28 – Conduct DID involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
        
        29 – Conduct did NOT involve a weapon, illegal drugs, or serious bodily injury
      - 30 – NO to both questions
        
        31 – School board expulsion or exclusion hearing
        
        32 – School board decision is to expel or exclude your child from the district
        
        33 – Appealing a school board expulsion or exclusion decision
        
        34 – Withdrawing your child from the school district
  - 35 – Concerns about the school not following required discipline procedures
36 – Conclusion
Definitions

Manifestation determination meeting outcome

**At my child’s manifestation determination meeting* the IEP team answered YES to at least one of these questions:**¹

Was your child’s conduct which resulted in their discipline caused by, or did it have a direct and substantial relationship to, their disability?
Was your child’s conduct the direct result of the school’s failure to implement their IEP?*

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At my child’s manifestation determination meeting the IEP team answered NO to both of these questions:²

Was your child’s conduct which resulted in their discipline caused by, or did it have a direct and substantial relationship to, their disability?
Was your child’s conduct the direct result of the school’s failure to implement their IEP?

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IDEA Regulations
1 - 34 C.F.R. § 300.530(e)(1).
2 - 34 C.F.R. § 300.530(e)(1).

* - definitions

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