PROCEDURES
Special Education and Student Services



Procedures

 


GUIDELINES FOR CONSIDERATION OF
CHANGE IN PLACEMENT


Related Albemarle County Special Education Forms:

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After a student has experienced 10 cumulative days of suspension within the school year, the Building Administrator in consultation with the Special Education Teacher must consider whether a change of placement has occurred (Form No. 80.03).

A change of placement has occurred if the student:

  1. Is removed for more than 10 consecutive days

  2. Receives a series of removals that constitute a pattern because the removals:

    1. Cumulate to more than 10 school days in a year, and

    2. The removals involve such factors as the length of each removal, the total amount of time the student is removed, and the proximity of the removals to one another.
NOTE: A student with a disability may be removed for a period of time that cumulatively exceeds 10 school days in a given school year for separate accounts of misconduct as long as the removals do not constitute a pattern.
  1. Isolated short term suspensions for unrelated instances of misconduct may not be considered a pattern.

  2. These removals do not constitute a change in placement.