School & Education

Explains why your child can be suspended and how long a suspension can last

Explains why a student can be expelled and how that process is decided.

Steps for handling the suspension of your child from school, including appealing the suspension and asking the school for your child's homework.

Steps to handle your child's expulsion from receiving a written letter of expulsion to how the expulsion hearing works.

Describes the process of reporting to the ISBE that your child's school is not following special education laws.

Describes the process of deciding whether a child's behavior was a result of their disability.

A student with a disability can be suspended for the same reasons as a student without a disability. But there is a limit to how many days a student with a disability may be suspended in the same school year.

Describes the process of expelling a student with disabilities.

Describes other schooling options for students that have been expelled

Steps to handle your child's suspension from appealing the suspension to looking into a behavioral intervention plan.

Provides information on disciplining preschool students under the Illinois preschool expulsion law.

Information about the search of students and their property