See also Policy 3-15R
The Preston County Board of Education is committed to providing a safe and orderly learning environment for the education of all students. Furthermore, the Board intends to meet the educational needs of disruptive students through the development of alternative education programs. An Alternative Education Program is an authorized departure from the regular school program designed to provide educational and social development for students whose disruptive behavior places them at risk of not succeeding in the traditional school structures and in adult life without positive interventions.
As funds become available, Preston County Schools will implement alternative education programs within a range of options including in-school suspension, separate part-time or full-time alternative education classroom, a school within a school, a school on an alternative site, an after school class/night school program, or a combination academic/work based program.
Preston County's procedures for its alternative learning programs will comply directly with all program requirements of West Virginia Board Policy 2418: Regulations for Alternative Education Programs for Disruptive Students. Procedures will be developed by the county, in collaboration with the schools, for implementing the alternative learning programs and will be submitted to the State Superintendent of Schools for approval.
The Preston County Board of Education will be accountable for program results and will conduct an annual evaluation of the program.
This policy will implement the requirements of State Board Policy 2418: Regulations for Alternative Education Programs for Disruptive Students and West Virginia Code 18-2-6 and 18-5-19, enacted by the 1996 West Virginia legislature as part of the Safe Schools Bill (H.B. 4065).
LEGAL REFERENCES:
West Virginia Constitution, Article XII
West Virginia Code 18-2-6; 18-5-19
State Policy 2418; 2419
ADOPTED:
August 26, 1996; June 29, 1999; September 25, 2000