Let your legislators know that you prefer the approaches contained in this bill. This is particularly important if your legislator serves on the K-12 policy or budget committees. SF 3104 would have prohibited students who were expelled from accessing the open enrollment option. This was amended in committee to allow districts to refuse to accept students who were expelled for weapons, drugs, or third degree assault. The coalition was able to make amendments to it that would not increase anyone s ability to use force beyond what was currently in law, that would prohibit the use of aversive and deprivation procedures along with corporal punishment, and that would include information about this law in the district s discipline policy.
Several bills relax data privacy provisions so that information can be shared to protect students.
Knutson clarifies that school officials that share data from the juvenile court system are immune from liability if they share the information in good faith. This information would become part of the student s education record until they graduate. The bill was amended in the Senate to exclude records of petty offenses and to make sure that delinquency records are eliminated from a student s permanent education record once the court disposes of it. The enormous surplus raises hope that the legislature will appropriate money for special education costs. Her worker suggested that she institutionalize her son.