California Education Code ARTICLE 1 - Suspension or Expulsion

• Section 48900.
  A pupil shall not be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school...
• Section 48900.1.
  (a) The governing board of each school district may adopt a policy authorizing teachers to require the parent or guardian of a pupil who has been...
• Section 48900.2.
  In addition to the reasons specified in Section 48900, a pupil may be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion if the superintendent or the...
• Section 48900.3.
  In addition to the reasons set forth in Sections 48900 and 48900.2, a pupil in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, may be suspended...
• Section 48900.4.
  In addition to the grounds specified in Sections 48900 and 48900.2, a pupil enrolled in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, may be suspended...
• Section 48900.5.
  (a) Suspension, including supervised suspension as described in Section 48911.1, shall be imposed only when other means of correction fail to bring about proper conduct. A...
• Section 48900.6.
  As part of or instead of disciplinary action prescribed by this article, the principal of a school, the principal’s designee, the superintendent of schools, or...
• Section 48900.7.
  (a) In addition to the reasons specified in Sections 48900, 48900.2, 48900.3, and 48900.4, a pupil may be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion if...
• Section 48900.8.
  For purposes of notification to parents, and for the reporting of expulsion or suspension offenses to the department, each school district shall specifically identify, by...
• Section 48900.9.
  (a) The superintendent of a school district, the principal of a school, or the principal’s designee may refer a victim of, witness to, or other pupil...
• Section 48901.
  (a) No school shall permit the smoking or use of a tobacco product by pupils of the school while the pupils are on campus, or while...
• Section 48901.5.
  (a) The governing board of each school district, or its designee, may regulate the possession or use of any electronic signaling device that operates through the...
• Section 48902.
  (a) The principal of a school or the principal’s designee shall, before the suspension or expulsion of any pupil, notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of...
• Section 48903.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (g) of Section 48911 and in Section 48912, the total number of days for which a pupil may be suspended...
• Section 48904.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 1714.1 of the Civil Code, the parent or guardian of any minor whose willful misconduct results in injury or death to any pupil...
• Section 48904.3.
  (a) Upon receiving notice that a school district has withheld the grades, diploma, or transcripts of any pupil pursuant to Section 48904, any school district to...
• Section 48905.
  An employee of a school district whose person or property is injured or damaged by the willful misconduct of a pupil who attends school in...
• Section 48906.
  When a principal or other school official releases a minor pupil to a peace officer for the purpose of removing the minor from the school...
• Section 48907.
  (a) Pupils of the public schools, including charter schools, shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech and of the press including, but not limited...
• Section 48908.
  All pupils shall comply with the regulations, pursue the required course of study, and submit to the authority of the teachers of the schools.(Repealed and...
• Section 48909.
  When a petition is requested in juvenile court or a complaint is filed in any court alleging that a minor of compulsory school attendance age...
• Section 48910.
  (a) A teacher may suspend any pupil from class, for any of the acts enumerated in Section 48900, for the day of the suspension and the...
• Section 48911.
  (a) The principal of the school, the principal’s designee, or the district superintendent of schools may suspend a pupil from the school for any of the...
• Section 48911.1.
  (a) A pupil suspended from a school for any of the reasons enumerated in Sections 48900 and 48900.2 may be assigned, by the principal or the...
• Section 48911.2.
  (a) If the number of pupils suspended from school during the prior school year exceeded 30 percent of the school’s enrollment, the school should consider doing...
• Section 48911.5.
  The site principal of a contracting nonpublic, nonsectarian school providing services to individuals with exceptional needs under Sections 56365 and 56366, shall have the same...
• Section 48912.
  (a) The governing board may suspend a pupil from school for any of the acts enumerated in Section 48900 for any number of schooldays within the...
• Section 48912.5.
  The governing board of a school district may suspend a pupil enrolled in a continuation school or class for a period not longer than the...
• Section 48913.
  The teacher of any class from which a pupil is suspended may require the suspended pupil to complete any assignments and tests missed during the...
• Section 48914.
  Each school district is authorized to establish a policy that permits school officials to conduct a meeting with the parent or guardian of a suspended...
• Section 48915.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (e), the principal or the superintendent of schools shall recommend the expulsion of a pupil for any of...
• Section 48915.01.
  If the governing board of a school district has established a community day school pursuant to Section 48661 on the same site as a comprehensive...
• Section 48915.1.
  (a) If the governing board of a school district receives a request from an individual who has been expelled from another school district for an act...
• Section 48915.2.
  (a) A pupil expelled from school for any of the offenses listed in subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 48915, shall not be permitted to enroll...
• Section 48915.5.
  (a) An individual with exceptional needs, as defined in Section 56026, may be suspended or expelled from school in accordance with Section 1415(k) of Title 20...
• Section 48915.7.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that where community school opportunities exist, the principal shall recommend for expulsion, and the governing board shall expel,...
• Section 48916.
  (a) An expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board, in the manner prescribed in this article, orders the readmission of a pupil. At...
• Section 48916.1.
  (a) At the time an expulsion of a pupil is ordered, the governing board of the school district shall ensure that an educational program is provided...
• Section 48916.5.
  The governing board may require a pupil who is expelled from school for reasons relating to controlled substances, as defined in Sections 11054 to 11058,...
• Section 48917.
  (a) The governing board, upon voting to expel a pupil, may suspend the enforcement of the expulsion order for a period of not more than one...
• Section 48918.
  The governing board of each school district shall establish rules and regulations governing procedures for the expulsion of pupils. These procedures shall include, but are...
• Section 48918.1.
  (a) (1) If the decision to recommend expulsion is a discretionary act and the pupil is a foster child, as defined in Section 48853.5, the governing board...
• Section 48918.5.
  In expulsion hearings involving allegations brought pursuant to subdivision (n) of Section 48900, the governing board of each school district shall establish rules and regulations...
• Section 48918.6.
  In addition to any other immunity that may exist, any testimony provided by a pupil witness in an expulsion hearing conducted pursuant to this article...
• Section 48919.
  If a pupil is expelled from school, the pupil or the pupil’s parent or guardian may, within 30 days following the decision of the governing...
• Section 48919.5.
  (a) A county board of education in a class 1 or class 2 county may have a hearing officer pursuant to Chapter 14 (commencing with Section...
• Section 48920.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 54950 of the Government Code and Section 35145 of this code, the county board of education shall hear an appeal...
• Section 48921.
  The county board of education shall determine the appeal from a pupil expulsion upon the record of the hearing before the district governing board, together...
• Section 48922.
  (a) The review by the county board of education of the decision of the governing board shall be limited to the following questions:(1) Whether the governing board...
• Section 48923.
  The decision of the county board shall be limited as follows:(a) If the county board finds that relevant and material evidence exists which, in the exercise...
• Section 48924.
  The decision of the county board of education shall be final and binding upon the pupil and upon the governing board of the school district....
• Section 48925.
  As used in this article:(a) “Day” means a calendar day unless otherwise specifically provided.(b) “Expulsion” means removal of a pupil from (1) the immediate supervision and control,...
• Section 48926.
  Each county superintendent of schools in counties that operate community schools pursuant to Section 1980, in conjunction with superintendents of the school districts within the...
• Section 48927.
  (a) This chapter shall also apply to pupils attending the California School for the Blind and the two California Schools for the Deaf, which shall be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018