SB00380: An Act Concerning School Discipline.

Legislative Summary

To (1) require services to be provided for certain youth who receive out-of-school suspensions; (2) revise the procedures by which notification is to be made to superintendents upon the arrest of a student; (3) clarify school resource officer reporting requirements; (4) require the Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative to develop standards for a school climate survey and a model school climate improvement plan; (5) require the school climate survey to meet the standards developed by the collaborative or be the state-wide school climate survey developed by the collaborative; (6) allow school climate specialists to incorporate the model school climate improvement plan in a school climate improvement plan for such specialist's school; and (7) require the Department of Education to (A) report on or before February 1, 2025, the number of acts of bullying based on a student's membership in a protected class, and (B) appoint a director of school climate improvement.