Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part CXV - Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators › Chapter 13 - Discipline › Section CXV-1307 - Reasons for Expulsions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				Students may be expelled for any of the following reasons:
1. any student, after being suspended for
				committing any of the offenses listed in §1305, may be expelled upon
				recommendation by the principal of the public school in which the student is
				enrolled;
2. any student, after
				being suspended on three occasions for committing drugs or weapons offenses
				during the same school session, shall, on committing the fourth offense, be
				expelled from all the public schools of the parish or city school system
				wherein he or she resides until the beginning of the next regular school year,
				subject to the review and approval of the local educational governing
				authority;
3. the conviction of any
				student of a felony or the incarceration of any student in a juvenile
				institution for an act which, had it been committed by an adult, would have
				constituted a felony, may be cause for expulsion of the student for a period of
				time as determined by the board;
a. such
				expulsions shall require the vote of two thirds of the elected members of the
				local educational governing authority.
b. such expulsions shall not be for a period
				of time longer than the student's period of adjudication as determined by the
				applicable court presiding over the student's criminal matter, shall run
				concurrent to the student's period of disposition, and may require the student
				to serve the time left in the expulsion period as required by the
				superintendent or designee if the student was serving an expulsion period when
				the student was incarcerated for a separate offense and the student completes
				the period of incarceration with time left in the expulsion period;
c. such conviction or incarceration may be
				sufficient cause for a superintendent to refuse admission of the student to a
				school except upon review and approval of a majority of the elected members of
				the local school board;
4. any student found guilty of being in
				possession of a firearm on school property or on a school bus or at a school
				sponsored event shall be expelled from school according to the requirements of
				R.S.
				17:416(C)(2);
5. a student in grades six and above who is
				found guilty of being in possession of any illegal narcotic, drug, or other
				controlled substance on school property, on a school bus, or at a school event
				shall be expelled from school according to the requirements of
				R.S.
				17:416(C)(2). The school
				principal or designee shall, within five days of arrest, refer such student for
				testing or screening by a qualified medical professional for evidence of abuse
				of alcohol, illegal narcotics, drugs, or other controlled dangerous substances.
				If evidence of abuse is found, the principal or designee shall refer the
				student to an alcohol and drug abuse treatment professional chosen by the
				student's parent or legal guardian.
6. any student older than eleven and in
				grades six and above, carrying or possessing a knife the blade of which equals
				or exceeds two and one-half inches in length.