ARTICLE 1. Suspension or Expulsion

Article 1 repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 498, Sec. 91.

§§ 48900–48927 · 57 sections

§ 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 in…
§ 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 suspended by…
§ 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 principal…
§ 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 from school or recommended…
§ 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 from school or…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 affected…
§ 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 attending school-sponsored…
§ 48901.1 Notwithstanding Section 47610 or any other law, the following provisions apply to charter schools: (a) (1) A pupil enrolled in a charter school in kindergarten…
§ 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…
§ 48901.7 (a) The governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school shall, no later than July 1, 2026,…
§ 48901.8 (a) (1) The governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school may adopt a policy to limit or…
§ 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…
§ 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 from school shall…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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 such district, when…
§ 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 premises, the school…
§ 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 to,…
§ 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.
§ 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 or any pupil…
§ 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 day following. The…
§ 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 reasons…
§ 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 principal’s…
§ 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…
§ 48911.5 The site principal of a contracting nonpublic, nonsectarian school providing services to individuals with exceptional needs under Sections 56365 and 56366,…
§ 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 limits…
§ 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 remainder of the…
§ 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 suspension.
§ 48913.5 (a) Upon the request of a parent, a legal guardian or other person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, or the affected pupil, a…
§ 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 pupil to…
§ 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 the…
§ 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 middle,…
§ 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 other than…
§ 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 in any other…
§ 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…
§ 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 the…
§ 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 to the…
§ 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,…
§ 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 calendar year and…
§ 48918 The governing board of each school district shall establish rules and regulations governing procedures for the expulsion of pupils. These procedures shall…
§ 48918.1 (a) If the decision is expulsion and the pupil is a foster child, as defined in Section 48853.5, the governing board of the school district shall provide…
§ 48918.5 In expulsion hearings involving allegations brought pursuant to subdivision (n) of Section 48900, the governing board of each school district shall establish…
§ 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 is…
§ 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 board to expel,…
§ 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 27720) of Part 3 of…
§ 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 of an…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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. The pupil and the…
§ 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…
§ 48926 (a) (1) Each county superintendent of schools in counties that operate community schools pursuant to Section 1980, in conjunction with superintendents of the…
§ 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 referred…