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Suspended Or Expelled

ORS 339.250 — never expelled for truancy, and fifth grade and below only for serious harm or a direct threat

  • Conduct that poses a threat to the health or safety of students or school employees
  • When other strategies to change the conduct have not worked, though never for truancy
  • When the law requires it
  • ORS 339.250
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Each district's written discipline policy limits expulsion to those three circumstances.

  • ORS 339.250

Fifth grade and younger. For a student in fifth grade or lower, out-of-school suspension and expulsion are limited further: nonaccidental conduct causing serious physical harm, conduct an administrator determines is a direct threat to health or safety, or where the law requires it.

  • ORS 339.250
Sources for this section (1)
  1. ORS 339.250 — Duty of student to comply with rules

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