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Michigan — school discipline

Governing authority stated in the sources
The Revised School Code, which each section PDF heads "THE REVISED SCHOOLCODE (EXCERPT)" and "Act 451 of 1976", in six sections: MCL 380.1309 (teacher-ordered suspension from a class, subject, or activity), 380.1311 (suspension or expulsion of pupil), 380.1310d (the factors a board must consider, and the rebuttable presumption), 380.1310c (restorative practices), 380.1310 (physical assault against another pupil), and 380.1311a (physical assault against an employee, volunteer, or contractor). Each section PDF closes with the section's own history line. The factors section reads "History:Add. 2016,Act 360, Eff.Aug. 1, 2017" and the restorative-practices section "History:Add. 2016,Act 361, Eff.Aug. 1, 2017"; the general section's latest recorded amendment is "Am. 2018,Act 145, Eff.Aug. 8, 2018", and the teacher-suspension section reads "History:Add. 1999,Act 103, Imd. Eff. July 6, 1999". — MCL 380.1311, retrieved Oct 8, 2026
The lines the state draws
Michigan draws three, at different places and for different purposes. At the classroom, a teacher may act alone for one day: "the teacher may cause the pupil to be suspended from the class, subject, or activity for up to 1 full school day." (MCL 380.1309(1)) For the factors section, the line is sixty school days: "Expel" there "means to exclude a pupil from school for disciplinary reasons for a period of 60 or more school days", and "Suspend" "means to exclude a pupil from school for disciplinary reasons for a period of fewer than 60 school days". (MCL 380.1310d(5)(a), (c)) For the presumption, the line is ten days: "In exercising this discretion with regard to a suspension of more than 10 days or an expulsion, there is a rebuttable presumption that a suspension or expulsion is not justified unless the board or board of directors, or its designee, can demonstrate that it considered each of the factors listed under subsection (1)." And below that line the duty remains without the presumption: "For a suspension of 10 or fewer days, there is no rebuttable presumption, but the board or board of directors, or its designee, shall consider each of the factors listed under subsection (1)." (MCL 380.1310d(2)) A separate and mandatory category runs alongside all three: on a dangerous weapon in a weapon free school zone, arson, or criminal sexual conduct, the board "shall expel the pupil from the school district permanently, subject to possible reinstatement under subsection (6)", unless the pupil establishes one of four stated matters "in a clear and convincing manner". (MCL 380.1311(2)) Emergency removal: not stated in the sources reviewed; none of the six sections provides for an immediate removal pending a later process.
Offices and appeal bodies in these sources
The decision-makers are the school board and, where the board designates them, the superintendent, a building principal, or another district official. (MCL 380.1311(1)) The sources state no appeal of a suspension or expulsion to any state body. What they state instead is a reinstatement petition to the expelling board, and if that board denies it, a petition to a different district's board: "If the expelling school board denies a petition for reinstatement, the parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, the individual may petition another school board for reinstatement of the individual in that other school district." (MCL 380.1311(6)) The petition is reviewed by a committee of "2 school board members, 1 school administrator, 1 teacher, and 1 parent of a pupil in the school district" (MCL 380.1311(6)(d)), and the outcome is stated to be the end of the road: "The decision of the school board is final." (MCL 380.1311(6)(f)) One state office is named, with a cataloguing role rather than a deciding one: "The office of safe schools in the department shall compile information on and catalog existing alternative education programs or schools and nonpublic schools that may be open to enrollment of individuals expelled under subsection (2) and under section 1311a, and shall periodically distribute this information to school districts for distribution to expelled individuals." (MCL 380.1311(11)) No state office, phone number, or email for parents appears in the sources reviewed. No Michigan Department of Education guidance is captured here: on 2026-08-29 michigan.gov/mde answered this project's fetcher with HTTP 403, which is a fact about the transport rather than a finding about the agency, and the capture remains pending.
Sources last checked
Oct 8, 2026

Reproduced from the state's own statutes quoted below: potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any situation.

This page assembles what Michigan publishes in statute about K-12 school discipline: who may exclude a pupil and on what grounds, the factors a board must weigh first, what the statute states and does not state about notice, hearing, and services, the reinstatement route after a permanent expulsion, and the questions the statute hands to each school board. The source is the Revised School Code, Act 451 of 1976, captured section by section from the Legislature's own PDFs on 2026-10-08; each section's history line is quoted where it dates the text. Michigan's own vocabulary appears throughout: suspend and expel, permanent expulsion "subject to possible reinstatement", the petition for reinstatement, restorative practices, the alternative education program, and the strict discipline academy. District codes of student conduct add procedural detail this page does not carry; the delegation map below points at the questions the statute leaves to them. For a student with an IEP or Section 504 plan, the disability layer lives on this site's Michigan special education page. Confirm applicability with the district and the agencies. All dates on this page are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01The framework

The framework, as the state writes it

Suspension from a class by a teacher (MCL 380.1309). "If a teacher in a public school has good reason to believe that a pupil's conduct in a class, subject, or activity constitutes conduct for which the pupil may be suspended from a class, subject, or activity according to the local policy required under subsection (2), the teacher may cause the pupil to be suspended from the class, subject, or activity for up to 1 full school day." The teacher "shall immediately report the suspension and the reason for the suspension to the school principal and send the pupil to the school principal or the school principal's designee for appropriate action." While the pupil remains at school: "If that action requires the continued presence of the pupil at school, the pupil shall be under appropriate supervision." This section is not among those MCL 380.1310d(1) lists.

Suspension or expulsion by the board or its designee (MCL 380.1311(1)). "Subject to subsection (2), the school board, or the school district superintendent, a school building principal, or another school district official if designated by the school board, may authorize or order the suspension or expulsion from school of a pupil who commits criminal sexual conduct against another pupil enrolled in the same school district or a pupil guilty of gross misdemeanor or persistent disobedience if, in the judgment of the school board or its designee, as applicable, the interest of the school is served by the authorization or order."

Mandatory permanent expulsion (MCL 380.1311(2), (3)). For the weapon, arson, and criminal sexual conduct categories quoted in the docket, the board "shall expel the pupil from the school district permanently, subject to possible reinstatement under subsection (6)." For weapon possession, the statute lists four matters a pupil may establish "in a clear and convincing manner", among them "(b) The weapon was not knowingly possessed by the pupil." It then states a presumption: "There is a rebuttable presumption that expulsion under subsection (2) for possession of a weapon is not justified if both of the following are met:" a written determination that one of those matters has been established, and "(b) The pupil has no history of suspension or expulsion." (MCL 380.1311(3)) The factors section steps aside for one category: "This section does not apply to a pupil being expelled under section 1311(2) for possessing a firearm in a weapon free school zone." (MCL 380.1310d(3))

Physical assault against another pupil (MCL 380.1310(1)). "Subject to section 1310d, if a pupil enrolled in grade 6 or above commits a physical assault at school against another pupil and the physical assault is reported to the school board, school district superintendent, or building principal, then the school board or the designee of the school board as described in section 1311(1) on behalf of the school board shall suspend or expel the pupil from the school district for up to 180 school days." "Physical assault" is defined as "intentionally causing or attempting to cause physical harm to another through force or violence." (MCL 380.1310(3)(b))

Assault against an employee, volunteer, or contractor; verbal assault; bomb threat (MCL 380.1311a(1), (2)). For a physical assault by a pupil in grade 6 or above against "a person employed by or engaged as a volunteer or contractor by the school board", the board "shall expel the pupil from the school district permanently, subject to possible reinstatement under subsection (5)." For a verbal assault against such a person, or "a bomb threat or similar threat directed at a school building, other school property, or a school-related event", the board or its designee "shall suspend or expel the pupil from the school district for a period of time as determined in the discretion of the school board or its designee."

The factors, and the presumption (MCL 380.1310d). "Before suspending or expelling a pupil under section 1310, 1311(1), 1311(2), or 1311a, the board of a school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a public school academy, or a superintendent, school principal, or other designee under section 1311(1), shall consider each of the following factors:" "(a) The pupil's age." "(b) The pupil's disciplinary history." "(c) Whether the pupil is a student with a disability." "(d) The seriousness of the violation or behavior committed by the pupil." "(e) Whether the violation or behavior committed by the pupil threatened the safety of any pupil or staff member." "(f) Whether restorative practices will be used to address the violation or behavior committed by the pupil." "(g) Whether a lesser intervention would properly address the violation or behavior committed by the pupil." (MCL 380.1310d(1)) The ten-day presumption is quoted in the docket. The statute adds: "consideration of the factors listed in subsection (1) is mandatory before suspending or expelling a student under section 1310, 1311(1), 1311(2), or 1311a." (MCL 380.1310d(4))

Restorative practices (MCL 380.1310c). A board or its designee must consider them in three situations, including this one: "If a school board or its designee decides not to suspend or expel a pupil for a disciplinary issue, the school board or its designee shall consider using restorative practices to address the disciplinary issue." The statute also states a preference: "Restorative practices should be the first consideration to remediate offenses such as interpersonal conflicts, bullying, verbal and physical conflicts, theft, damage to property, class disruption, and harassment and cyberbullying." (MCL 380.1310c(1), (2)) The term is defined: "Restorative practices" means "practices that emphasize repairing the harm to the victim and the school community caused by a pupil's misconduct." (MCL 380.1310c(3)(b))

02The process

The published process

Notice and hearing before exclusion
Not stated in the sources reviewed for a suspension or expulsion by a board or its designee. The six sections were searched for a hearing, a notice of charges, due process, and an opportunity to respond, and none states one. What the sections do state is narrower. After a teacher's class suspension: "As soon as possible after a suspension under this section, the teacher shall ask the parent or guardian of the pupil to attend a parent-teacher conference regarding the suspension." "Whenever practicable, a school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker shall attend the conference." A school administrator "shall attend the conference if the teacher or the parent or guardian so requests." (MCL 380.1309(1)) Before a suspension of more than 10 days or an expulsion, the board or its designee must be able to "demonstrate that it considered each of the factors listed under subsection (1)." (MCL 380.1310d(2)) For the weapon presumption, the determination is written: "(a) The school board or its designee determines in writing that at least 1 of the factors listed in subsection (2)(a) to (d) has been established in a clear and convincing manner." (MCL 380.1311(3)(a))
Services during exclusion
Stated only as a permission, and only for a permanent expulsion: "If an individual expelled from a school district under subsection (2) is not placed in an alternative education program, strict discipline academy, or cyber school, the school district may provide, or may arrange for the intermediate school district to provide, appropriate instructional services to the individual at home." (MCL 380.1311(4); MCL 380.1311a(3) states the same permission for a permanent expulsion under that section.) The statute places the search for a program on the family: "If an individual is expelled under subsection (2), it is the responsibility of that individual and of his or her parent or legal guardian to locate a suitable alternative educational program and to enroll the individual in such a program during the expulsion." (MCL 380.1311(11); MCL 380.1310(2) and 380.1311a(11) state the same for expulsions under those sections.) For a suspension, and for an expulsion under MCL 380.1311(1): not stated in the sources reviewed (the six sections were searched).
The record made, and the appeal route
"If an individual is expelled under subsection (2), the expelling school district shall enter on the individual's permanent record that he or she has been expelled under subsection (2)." (MCL 380.1311(4)) The sources state no appeal of a suspension or expulsion, to a state body or to a court. The stated route after a permanent expulsion is reinstatement: "The parent or legal guardian of an individual expelled under subsection (2) or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, the individual may petition the expelling school board for reinstatement of the individual to public education in the school district." (MCL 380.1311(6)) The petition is the family's to prepare: "It is the responsibility of the parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, of the individual to prepare and submit the petition." A form is available on request: "Upon request by a parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, by the individual, a school board shall make available a form for a petition." (MCL 380.1311(6)(c)) The committee's recommendation "shall be for unconditional reinstatement, for conditional reinstatement, or against reinstatement, and shall be accompanied by an explanation of the reasons for the recommendation and of any recommended conditions for reinstatement." (MCL 380.1311(6)(e)) The board then decides, and "The decision of the school board is final." (MCL 380.1311(6)(f); MCL 380.1311a(5) states the same route for a permanent expulsion under that section.) For a teacher's class suspension, the pupil's return that day is stated: "During a suspension under this section, the pupil shall not be returned that school day to the class, subject, or activity from which he or she was suspended without the concurrence of the teacher of the class, subject, or activity and the school principal." (MCL 380.1309(1))
If the student has an IEP or Section 504 plan
The disability layer lives on this site's Michigan special education page. The discipline sections themselves state: "This section does not diminish any rights under federal law of a pupil who has been determined to be eligible for special education programs and services." (MCL 380.1311(9); MCL 380.1311a(8) states the same.) And discipline can itself trigger an evaluation: "If there is reasonable cause to believe that the pupil is a student with a disability, and the school district has not evaluated the pupil in accordance with rules of the superintendent of public instruction to determine if the pupil is a student with a disability, the pupil shall be evaluated immediately by the intermediate school district of which the school district is constituent in accordance with section 1711." (MCL 380.1311(1))

The four rows above answer the questions an experienced adviser raises first, from the state's own statutes, or record that a question is not answered in them.

Timelines, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none calculated. From the six sections as retrieved Oct 8, 2026.

On a teacher's class suspension: "for up to 1 full school day", with the parent-teacher conference to be requested "As soon as possible after a suspension under this section". (MCL 380.1309(1))

On the factors section's own definitions: "Expel" means exclusion "for a period of 60 or more school days"; "Suspend", "for a period of fewer than 60 school days". (MCL 380.1310d(5)(a), (c))

On the presumption: it applies to "a suspension of more than 10 days or an expulsion"; "For a suspension of 10 or fewer days, there is no rebuttable presumption". (MCL 380.1310d(2))

On physical assault against another pupil: suspension or expulsion "for up to 180 school days." (MCL 380.1310(1))

On the referral after a permanent expulsion: "If a school board expels an individual under subsection (2), the school board shall ensure that, within 3 days after the expulsion, an official of the school district refers the individual to the appropriate county department of social services or county community mental health agency and notifies the individual's parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, notifies the individual of the referral." (MCL 380.1311(5); MCL 380.1311a(4) states the same for a permanent expulsion under that section.)

On when a reinstatement petition may be filed: "For an individual who was enrolled in grade 5 or below at the time of the expulsion and who has been expelled for possessing a firearm or threatening another person with a dangerous weapon, the parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, the individual may initiate a petition for reinstatement at any time after the expiration of 60 school days after the date of expulsion." For other grade 5 or below expulsions under subsection (2), the petition may be initiated "at any time." "For an individual who was in grade 6 or above at the time of expulsion, the parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, the individual may initiate a petition for reinstatement at any time after the expiration of 150 school days after the date of expulsion." (MCL 380.1311(6)(a))

On the earliest reinstatement: for the grade 5 or below firearm and dangerous-weapon category, "shall not be reinstated before the expiration of 90 school days after the date of expulsion."; for other grade 5 or below expulsions under subsection (2), "shall not be reinstated before the expiration of 10 school days after the date of the expulsion."; and "An individual who was in grade 6 or above at the time of the expulsion shall not be reinstated before the expiration of 180 school days after the date of expulsion." (MCL 380.1311(6)(b))

On a permanent expulsion under MCL 380.1311a: "The individual's parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, the individual may initiate a petition for reinstatement at any time after the expiration of 150 school days after the date of expulsion." "The individual shall not be reinstated before the expiration of 180 school days after the date of expulsion." (MCL 380.1311a(5)(a), (b))

On the committee and the decision: "Not later than 10 school days after receiving a petition for reinstatement under this subsection, a school board shall appoint a committee to review the petition and any supporting information submitted by the parent or legal guardian or, if the individual is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, by the individual." (MCL 380.1311(6)(d)) "Not later than 10 school days after all members are appointed, the committee described in subdivision (d) shall review the petition and any supporting information and information provided by the school district and shall submit a recommendation to the school board on the issue of reinstatement." (MCL 380.1311(6)(e)) "Not later than the next regularly scheduled board meeting after receiving the recommendation of the committee under subdivision (e), a school board shall make a decision to unconditionally reinstate the individual, conditionally reinstate the individual, or deny reinstatement of the individual." (MCL 380.1311(6)(f); MCL 380.1311a(5)(d) to (f) state the same intervals.)

What any of this means for a particular situation is for the district, the agency, and their processes to determine.

Assigned to district policy by the quoted provision

The statute writes the frame and hands named questions to each school board. Two are expressly assigned to board policy; the rest are left to the board's or its designee's discretion, and are listed as such. Each entry below quotes the delegating text. No district's code of conduct is captured or quoted here.

Which conduct supports a teacher's class suspension (policy). A school board "shall adopt a local policy specifying the types of conduct for which a pupil may be suspended from a class, subject, or activity by a teacher under this section. This policy shall be included in the school board's code of student conduct." (MCL 380.1309(2))

What counts as a verbal assault (policy). The suspension-or-expulsion rule reaches "a verbal assault, as defined by school board policy," against an employee, volunteer, or contractor. (MCL 380.1311a(2))

Who decides, and whether to act (discretion). Authority runs to "the school board, or the school district superintendent, a school building principal, or another school district official if designated by the school board", and the trigger is whether, "in the judgment of the school board or its designee, as applicable, the interest of the school is served by the authorization or order." (MCL 380.1311(1))

How the factors are considered (discretion). "The method used for consideration of the factors is at the sole discretion of the board of a school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a public school academy, or its designee." (MCL 380.1310d(4))

How long a verbal-assault or bomb-threat exclusion runs (discretion). "for a period of time as determined in the discretion of the school board or its designee." (MCL 380.1311a(2))

Whether a permanently expelled pupil is admitted to a district program or served at home (discretion). The statewide bar on enrollment yields where a district "operates or participates cooperatively in an alternative education program appropriate for individuals expelled under subsection (2) and in its discretion admits the individual to that program"; and the district "may provide, or may arrange for the intermediate school district to provide, appropriate instructional services to the individual at home." (MCL 380.1311(4))

Conditions on reinstatement (discretion). A school board "may require an individual and, if the petition was filed by a parent or legal guardian, his or her parent or legal guardian to agree in writing to specific conditions before reinstating the individual in a conditional reinstatement." (MCL 380.1311(6)(g))

Records access, as stated in the sources

The only record provision in the six sections is the permanent-record entry after a permanent expulsion, quoted above for MCL 380.1311(4); MCL 380.1311a(3) states that "the expelling school district shall enter on the individual's permanent record that he or she has been permanently expelled pursuant to this section." Parent inspection of discipline records: not stated in the sources reviewed. Expungement or removal of a discipline record, including the permanent-record entry: not stated in the sources reviewed (MCL 380.1309, 380.1310, 380.1310c, 380.1310d, 380.1311 and 380.1311a were searched); district policies may address it. Federal records rights under FERPA are not restated here.

03Source map

Source map

DocumentLocationDates
MCL 380.1309 (teacher-ordered suspension from a class, subject, or activity)legislature.mi.govhistory line: added 1999 Act 103, immediate effect July 6, 1999; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1311 (suspension or expulsion of pupil)legislature.mi.govhistory line: 1976 Act 451, last amended 2018 Act 145, effective August 8, 2018; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1310d (factors; discretion; rebuttable presumption)legislature.mi.govhistory line: added 2016 Act 360, effective August 1, 2017; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1310c (restorative practices)legislature.mi.govhistory line: added 2016 Act 361, effective August 1, 2017; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1310 (physical assault against another pupil)legislature.mi.govhistory line: added 1999 Act 102, last amended 2016 Act 365, effective August 1, 2017; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1311a (physical assault against an employee, volunteer, or contractor)legislature.mi.govhistory line: added 1999 Act 104, last amended 2016 Act 366, effective August 1, 2017; retrieved Oct 8, 2026
MCL 380.1311b to 380.1311m (strict discipline academies), cited by § 380.1311(4)cited in the sections abovecapture pending
MCL 380.1310b (bullying), whose definitions § 380.1310c adoptscited in the sections abovecapture pending
Michigan Department of Education guidance on student discipline—michigan.gov/mde answered this project's fetcher with HTTP 403 on 2026-08-29; capture pending
District codes of conduct and board discipline policieseach district and public school academynever captured; see the delegation map
04Change log

Change log

Oct 8, 2026 · Full-depth build; footer quotation retired (discipline-layer deepening). Recaptured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/michigan-discipline.json (digest a933eb4a6340), by curl and pdftotext-raw under the pinned poppler 26.07.0, now six sections: MCL 380.1309 was added to the recipe earlier the same day, closing the 2026-09-02 finding that the five-section recipe could not reach it. The recapture is byte-identical to the standing packet. What moved, and which kind of drift it was: the baseline docket quoted each section PDF's footer, "Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA91 of 2026" and "Rendered Tuesday,August 25, 2026", as dated facts. The same footers now read "Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA103 of 2026" and, by section, "Rendered Wednesday, September 23, 2026" or "Rendered Thursday, September 24, 2026". That is the third kind of drift, a quotation the source now states in different words, but no statute text moved: the Legislature's server regenerates each section PDF on its own schedule and restamps the footer. The page no longer quotes either footer line; it carries each section's own history line, which changes only when the Legislature amends the section. Built out sections 01–02 (framework route by route, four hoisted process rows, timelines, district delegation map, records access) and widened the docket to the sixth section. Findings recorded: (1) MCL 380.1309 adds a classroom route: a teacher may suspend a pupil from a class, subject, or activity for up to one full school day, must report it to the principal, and must ask the parent to a parent-teacher conference as soon as possible; that conference is the only meeting with a parent the six sections state; (2) no hearing, notice of charges, or opportunity to respond before a suspension or expulsion by a board or its designee is stated in the six sections, which were searched for hearing, notice, due process, and opportunity to respond; (3) services during exclusion are stated only as a permission, for permanent expulsions under MCL 380.1311(2) and 380.1311a, and the statute places the search for an alternative program on the pupil and parent; (4) the delegation map carries seven questions, two expressly assigned to board policy (the conduct that supports a teacher's class suspension, and the definition of verbal assault) and five left to the board's or its designee's discretion; (5) the only record provision is the permanent-record entry after a permanent expulsion, and inspection and expungement of discipline records are not stated in the six sections; (6) the state's own texts name one office two ways: MCL 380.1311(11) writes "office of safe schools", MCL 380.1310(2) writes "office for safe schools", and MCL 380.1311a(11) uses both; recorded, not reconciled; (7) MCL 380.1310d(1)'s list of governed sections does not include MCL 380.1309. Capture still pending: MCL 380.1311b to 380.1311m, MCL 380.1310b, and Department guidance through a transport that host accepts. Retained in tools/packets/history/michigan-discipline/ with result rebuild. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-08). Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.

Aug 29, 2026 · Baseline page created (discipline-layer breadth sprint). Captured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/michigan-discipline.json: MCL 380.1311, 380.1310d, 380.1310c, 380.1310 and 380.1311a. Findings recorded: (1) the Legislature's MCL viewer at /Laws/MCL and its /Home/Document page both return navigation chrome with no statute text, while the same sections are published as first-party PDFs under /documents/mcl/pdf/ that a plain fetcher receives whole — so the PDF is the capture and the viewer URL is where a reader is sent, both the Legislature's own; (2) Michigan draws two lines rather than one, at sixty school days for the factors section's own definitions of "Expel" and "Suspend", and at ten days for the rebuttable presumption, and the duty to consider the seven factors survives below both; (3) the seven factors and the rebuttable presumption are the distinguishing feature of the scheme, added by 2016 Act 360 effective August 1, 2017, alongside the restorative-practices section added by 2016 Act 361; (4) the sources state no appeal of a suspension or expulsion to any state body — the stated route is a reinstatement petition to the expelling board and, on denial, to another district's board, decided by a five-member committee's recommendation, with the statute stating "The decision of the school board is final"; (5) the statute puts the work of the petition on the parent and states that a school board "is not required to provide any assistance in preparing the petition"; (6) a permanent expulsion triggers a stated three-day referral to county social services or community mental health; (7) discipline itself triggers a special education evaluation where there is reasonable cause to believe the pupil is a student with a disability and none has been done; (8) the section PDFs carry text-layer artifacts from the running footer, which fuses into the body text at page breaks ("legislature.mi.govindividual", "PA91 of 2026", "Aschool board", "expulsion.An individual", "THE REVISED SCHOOLCODE"), and these are preserved verbatim inside quotations and avoided where a quotation would otherwise straddle a page break; (9) no state office, telephone number, or email address for parents appears in the sources reviewed, and michigan.gov/mde answered this review's fetcher with HTTP 403, so the absence of Department guidance from this page is a fact about the transport rather than a finding about the agency. Not yet built, pending the deepening pass: sections 01–02 (framework, hoisted rows, timelines), the district delegation map, and records access. Capture pending: MCL 380.1311b to 380.1311m, MCL 380.1310b, and Department guidance through a transport that host accepts. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-08-29. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.