Student Discipline – Roles and Responsibilities of the Governing Board

This presentation from the Florida Charter Institute Governance Conference covers the essential roles and responsibilities of charter school governing boards regarding student discipline. It outlines the board's duty to adopt clear discipline policies, ensure explicit codes of conduct, and monitor data trends, while defining specific consequences such as in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, expulsion, and charter school withdrawal or dismissal. Furthermore, it details critical procedural safeguards and legal protections for students with disabilities under IDEA and Section 504, highlights the harmful long-term effects of exclusionary punishments, and emphasizes proactive, positive, and prosocial behavioral frameworks.