Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 8 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Subtitle 2 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - PUBLIC SCHOOL
Chapter 19 - STUDENT MISCONDUCT, DISCIPLINE, SCHOOL SEARCHES AND SEIZURES, REPORTING OFFENSES, POLICE INTERVIEWS AND ARRESTS, RESTITUTION FOR VANDALISM, AND COMPLAINT PROCEDURE AND INVESTIGATION OF DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT (INCLUDING SEXUAL HARASSMENT), BULLYING AND/OR RETALIATION
Subchapter 2 - STUDENT MISCONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE DURING THE REGULAR SCHOOL YEAR
Section 8-19-5 - Disciplinary actions; authority
Current through January, 2025
(a) Suspensions exceeding ten school days or suspensions that will result in the student being suspended more than a total of ten school days in any single semester, disciplinary transfers, dismissals, and extension of crisis removals shall be approved by complex area superintendent.
(b) Crisis removals and suspensions of ten school days or less may be approved by the principal or designee.
(c) In determining disciplinary actions, the principal or designee shall consider the intention of the offender, the nature and severity of the offense, the impact of the offense on others including whether the action was committed by an individual or a group of individuals such as a gang, the age of the offender, and if the offender was a repeat offender.
