A bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit the use of long-term disciplinary measures against students who are children with disabilities, to provide for a limitation on the provision of educational services to children with disabilities who engage in behaviors that are unrelated to their disabilities, and to require educational entities to include in the educational records of students who are children without disabilities documentation with regard to disciplinary measures taken against such students, and for other purposes.
School Security Improvement Act of 1997 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to require educational entities to include, in the educational records of students who are children with disabilities and students who are children without disabilities, documentation with regard to disciplinary measures taken against them. Permits the use of long-term disciplinary measures against students who are children with disabilities.
Requires continuing provision of educational services to children with disabilities who engage in behavior that violates an educational entity's rules or code of conduct, unless such behavior is not a manifestation of their disabilities, and it is the entity's policy to cease educational services to any child engaged in such behavior.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Congress should follow through on its original commitment and provide funding for the IDEA State grant program at the level of 40 percent of the national average per-pupil expenditure.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4007-4008)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
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