Subd. 10. Suspension. — “Suspension” means an action by the school administration, under rules promulgated by the school board, prohibiting a pupil from attending school for a period of no more than ten school days. If a suspension is longer than five days, the suspending administrator must provide the superintendent with a reason for the longer suspension. This definition does not apply to dismissal from school for one school day or less, except as provided in federal law for a student with a disability. Each suspension action may include a readmission plan. The readmission plan shall include, where appropriate, a provision for implementing alternative educational services upon readmission and may not be used to extend the current suspension. Consistent with section 125A.091, subdivision 5, the readmission plan must not obligate a parent to provide a sympathomimetic medication for the parent’s child as a condition of readmission. The school administration may not impose consecutive suspensions against the same pupil for the same course of conduct, or incident of misconduct, except where the pupil will create an immediate and substantial danger to self or to surrounding persons or property, or where the district is in the process of initiating an expulsion, in which case the school administration may extend the suspension to a total of 15 school days.

Subdivision 1.  Requiring a hearing; pupil may waive hearing. No exclusion or expulsion shall be imposed without a hearing, unless the right to a hearing is waived in writing by the pupil and parent or guardian. The action shall be initiated by the school board or its agent.

Subd. 3. Policy components. The policy must include at least the following components:

• (a) rules governing student conduct and procedures for informing students of the rules;
• (b) the grounds for removal of a student from a class;
• (c) the authority of the classroom teacher to remove students from the classroom pursuant to procedures and rules established in the district’s policy;
• (d) the procedures for removal of a student from a class by a teacher, school administrator, or other school district employee;
• (e) the period of time for which a student may be removed from a class, which may not exceed five class periods for a violation of a rule of conduct;
• (f) provisions relating to the responsibility for and custody of a student removed from a class;
• (g) the procedures for return of a student to the specified class from which the student has been removed;