Alternative Educational Services Procedures
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When students are removed from class because of a behavior infraction, school staff must provide missed assignments and the opportunity to make up those assignments in a reasonable amount of time without penalty. * Students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 504 Plans have additional protections. If a student with an IEP or 504 Plan is suspended for more than five (5) school days, the student is entitled to alternative educational services that will allow the student to progress toward meeting graduation requirements and the suspending administrator must provide the superintendent with a reason for the longer suspension.
“Alternative educational services” (as defined by the PFDA) may include, but are not limited to, special tutoring, modified curriculum, modified instruction, other modifications or adaptations, instruction through electronic media, special education services as indicated by appropriate assessment, homebound instruction, supervised homework, or enrollment in another district or in an alternative learning center selected to allow the student to progress toward meeting graduation requirements although in different setting.
Note: The alternative educational services, if the student wishes to take advantage of them, must be adequate to allow the student to make progress towards meeting the graduation requirements and help prepare the student for readmission.
No school shall dismiss any student without attempting to provide alternative educational services before dismissal proceedings, except where it appears that the student will create an immediate and substantial danger to self or to surrounding persons or property.
Students shall be provided alternative educational services to the extent a suspension exceeds five consecutive school days.
Alternative educational services must also be provided to students who have been suspended pending expulsion or exclusion, to the extent that suspension exceeds five days. The school administrator is responsible for ensuring that the school attempts to provide required alternative educational services.
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This handbook item is specific to Cambridge Middle School.
This handbook item is specific to Cambridge Middle School.
This handbook item is specific to Cambridge Middle School.
This handbook item is specific to Cambridge Middle School.
This handbook item is specific to Cambridge Middle School.