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Student Disciplinary Records: Page 2 of 4
Student Disciplinary Records
As part
of NCLB, all states are required to assure the federal government that they
have a state law to mandate that a student's disciplinary record follows the
student to any new school. In Iowa the assurance is via Iowa Code section
279.9A. This law requires that "an accurate record of any suspension or
expulsion actions taken, and the basis for those actions taken," be reported to
a school to which the student transfers or seeks to transfer. This section
applies to both nonpublic schools and districts.
The Iowa Department of Education's (DE) interpretation of 279.9A is that all expulsions
and out-of-school suspensions must be reported. It is left to the discretion of
the school or school district that imposes an in-school suspension whether to
include such disciplinary records in what it sends to the student's next
school.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 03 December 2007 )
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