One area commonly addressed by board policies and administrative guidelines is student discipline procedures, including suspension and expulsion hearings. Many schools, however, have administrative guidelines for student suspension and discipline hearings that violate Section 7(2) of the Open Meetings Act (OMA). These problematic guidelines state that a student has a right to receive a transcript of a student discipline hearing upon a parent’s or the student’s request, regardless of...
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