Indiana Administrative Code
Title 511 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Article 7 - SPECIAL EDUCATION
Rule 44 - Discipline Procedures
Section 44-1 - Removals in general

Universal Citation: 511 IN Admin Code 44-1

Current through March 20, 2024

Authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-19-2-16

Affected: IC 20-19-2; IC 20-33-8-7; IC 20-35

Sec. 1.

(a) A public agency is not required to provide services to a student with a disability during any of the first ten (10) cumulative instructional days of removal in a school year, for violating a code of student conduct, if services are not provided to a nondisabled student who has been similarly removed.

(b) Removal of a student for any part of a day constitutes a day of removal.

(c) A short-term removal of a student pursuant to the student's IEP is not a removal under this rule.

(d) A suspension is a removal. However, an in-school suspension is not considered a removal for purposes of this rule if, during the in-school suspension, the student has the opportunity to:

(1) progress appropriately in the general curriculum;

(2) receive the special education services specified in the student's IEP; and

(3) participate with nondisabled students to the extent the student would have in the student's current placement.

(e) If bus transportation is part of the student's IEP, a suspension from the bus would be a removal, unless the public agency provides transportation in an alternative manner.

(f) A removal under this rule constitutes a suspension as defined in IC 20-33-8-7. A public agency's suspension procedures must comply with Indiana statutes and this article.

(g) If a student is removed for more than ten (10) consecutive instructional days in a school year, the public agency must abide by the requirements in sections 4 and 5 of this rule.

(h) If a student is removed for more than ten (10) cumulative instructional days in a school year, the public agency must determine if a change of placement has occurred in accordance with section 2 of this rule. If the public agency determines:

(1) that a change of placement has occurred, the public agency must abide by the requirements in sections 4 and 5 of this rule; or

(2) that a change of placement has not occurred, the public agency must abide by the requirements in section 3 of this rule.

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