Connecticut State Department of Education

Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled


Review of Student Placement


To ensure that the student is receiving the necessary supports and that continued placement in the alternative educational opportunity is appropriate during the expulsion period, LEAs must have a clear process that is writ- ten in policy regarding monitoring the student’s progress.

Progress Monitoring of Student Performance and Placement

A review of the appropriateness of placement occurs at least once per marking period. The following issues are to be considered:

  • a review of the student’s ILP to assess progress and to make adjustments as necessary;
  • opportunities for early readmission to the school from which the student was expelled shall be reviewed as indicated by the readmission goal outlined in the ILP; and
  • a review of the student’s ILP and alignment to the goals of his or her IEP, where applicable.

Process for Transition Planning

It is expected that, in most cases, students are best served in regular school environments with their peers and thus should be able to be readmitted to the school from which the students were expelled, as soon as possible. The LEA must adopt procedures to address students’ transition from the alternative educational opportunity back to their regular school environments. As a part of the readmission process and the student’s ILP, the following should be considered:

  • efforts to readmit students at semester start points at the high school level to facilitate re-entry;
  • a plan to transfer the student’s credits and record back to the school from which the student was expelled;
  • the student’s needs for academic and other supports upon return to the home school environment; and
  • efforts to connect returning students with opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities to support student engagement and general health and development.

If there is a determination that placement in the current alternative educational opportunity is no longer beneficial to a student who has been expelled but it is also inappropriate to have the student return to the school from which the student was expelled, a plan for different alternative educational opportunities should be developed, following the procedure outlined in the Student Placement section.