1997 Minnesota Statutes

     127.38 Policies to be established. 

    (a) The commissioner of children, families, and learning 
 shall promulgate guidelines to assist each school board.  Each 
 school board shall establish uniform criteria for dismissal and 
 adopt written policies and rules to effectuate the purposes of 
 sections 127.26 to 127.39.  The policies shall emphasize 
 preventing dismissals through early detection of problems.  The 
 policies shall recognize the continuing responsibility of the 
 school for the education of the pupil during the dismissal 
 period.  The alternative educational services, if the pupil 
 wishes to take advantage of them, must be adequate to allow the 
 pupil to make progress towards meeting the graduation standards 
 adopted under section 121.11, subdivision 7c, and help prepare 
 the pupil for readmission.  

    (b) An area learning center under section 124C.45 may not 
 prohibit an expelled or excluded pupil from enrolling solely 
 because a district expelled or excluded the pupil.  The board of 
 the area learning center may use the provisions of The Pupil 
 Fair Dismissal Act to exclude a pupil or to require an admission 
 plan. 

    (c) The commissioner shall actively encourage and assist 
 school districts to cooperatively establish alternative 
 educational services that offer instruction to pupils who are 
 dismissed from school for willfully engaging in dangerous, 
 disruptive, or violent behavior, including for possessing a 
 firearm in a school zone. 

    HIST: 1974 c 572 s 13; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 647 art 4 s 38; 
 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 7 s 34