Tennessee — school discipline
A note on this state's sourcing. Tennessee is the one state in this layer where the underlying statute itself, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401, has no free first-party host: the Tennessee Code Commission's exclusive contract runs the official code through LexisNexis Advance, a login-gated commercial platform, and the state publishes no plain-text mirror of its own. In its place, this page uses the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission's own adopted policies for the charter schools it directly authorizes — LEA Policy 6316 (Suspension/Expulsion/Remand) and LEA Policy 6317 (Required Remands and Student Disciplinary Hearing Authority) — because the Commission is itself a state agency, not a district, and every substantive provision in both policies is footnoted to a T.C.A. pinpoint cite. An ordinary public-school student attends under their local school district's own policy, not the Commission's; the district's policy is required to track the same statute but may differ in particulars this page does not carry. Where this page uses district delegation as its section name, the delegate the sources actually name is "the authorized charter school" and its governing board — Tennessee's charter-authorization structure standing in for the ordinary district that a ready-made statute mirror would otherwise carry.
- The lines the state draws
- A suspension or expulsion of more than ten days carries a stated notice and appeal right: "The school leader shall immediately give notice to the parent or guardian of the student of the right to appeal the decision to suspend/expel/remand for more than ten days to a Disciplinary Hearing Authority as set forth in Commission LEA Policy 6317 – Required Remands and Student Disciplinary Hearing Authority." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(1)-(4)) Before any suspension, expulsion, or remand, the policy states a hearing-adjacent floor: "Unless the student's continued presence in the school, class, or school-related activity presents an immediate danger to the student or other persons or property, no school leader shall suspend/expel/remand any student until that student has been advised of the nature of his/her misconduct, questioned about it, and allowed to give an explanation." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(1)-(4)) Certain offenses carry a mandatory floor stated separately: "Certain zero tolerance offenses require a mandatory one calendar-year expulsion unless modified by the head of the charter school." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(g))
- Offices and appeal bodies in these sources
- The appeal chain runs through three stated bodies. First, each authorized charter school "shall establish" a body the policy calls the Disciplinary Hearing Authority, "which shall conduct appeals for students who have been suspended/expelled/remanded for more than ten (10) school days." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(5)) For a zero-tolerance expulsion specifically, "the student, parent or guardian shall have the right to appeal from the DHA to the Director of Schools to seek modification of the mandatory one calendar year expulsion." "The Director of Schools shall render a decision within seven calendar days." (Policy 6317) From there, "the student, parent or guardian shall have the right to appeal to the governing board of the authorized charter school regarding guilt or innocence of the zero tolerance infraction, and whether the student was provided with proper due process." "The decision of the charter school's governing board shall be final." (Policy 6317)
No address, phone number, or email for the Commission or any Disciplinary Hearing Authority appears in the captured sources; that absence is a finding. - Sources last checked
- Oct 18, 2026
Reproduced from the state's own policy record quoted below: potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any situation.
This page assembles what the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission's own adopted policy states about K-12 school discipline for the charter schools it authorizes: who may suspend, expel, or remand a student, the notice and hearing the policy requires, what continues during a removal, where the appeal routes run, and, because the policy assigns much of the procedural detail to each authorized charter school's own governing board, a map of the questions answered only there. The anchor source is Commission LEA Policy 6316 (Suspension/Expulsion/Remand), revised July 24, 2026, together with Policy 6317 (Required Remands and Student Disciplinary Hearing Authority), revised the same date — the closest first-party record available given that the underlying statute, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401, sits behind the login-gated commercial code platform described above. The policies' own vocabulary appears throughout: suspension, expulsion, remand, the Disciplinary Hearing Authority (the "DHA"), zero-tolerance offenses, and the Director of Schools. An ordinary Tennessee public-school student attends under their local school district's own policy, not the Commission's; that district policy is required to track the same statute but may state its own particulars differently, and no district's or charter school's own code of conduct is captured or quoted on this page. For a student with an IEP or Section 504 plan, that layer lives on this site's Tennessee special education page. Confirm applicability with the school and the agencies. All dates on this page are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
The framework, as the state writes it
Definitions (Policy 6316). "Suspension: Dismissed from attendance at school for any reason for not more than ten consecutive school days. Multiple suspensions shall not run consecutively nor shall multiple suspensions be applied to avoid expulsion from school." "Expulsion: Removal from attendance for more than ten (10) consecutive school days or more than fifteen school days in a month of school attendance." "Remand: Assignment by an authorized charter school to an alternative school, where available, after the expulsion of a student. A student who is remanded shall be included in average daily attendance and average daily membership and shall continue to be counted as present at the authorized charter school for funding purposes." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3007(h))
Grounds for suspension, expulsion, or remand (Policy 6316). The policy lists fourteen numbered grounds, "including, but not limited to" — among them: "Willful and persistent violation of the rules of the school;" "Violence or threatened violence against the person of any personnel attending or assigned to any school;" "Possession of a pistol, gun, or firearm on school property;" "Possession of a knife or other weapons as defined in T.C.A. § 39-17-1301 on school property;" "One or more students initiating a physical attack on an individual student on school property or at a school-related activity, including travel to and from school or a school- related activity;" "Making a threat, including a false report, to use a bomb, dynamite, or any other deadly explosive or destructive device, including chemical weapons, on school property or at a school sponsored event;" and, reaching off campus: "Off campus criminal behavior that results in the student being legally charged with an offense that would be classified as a felony if the student was charged as an adult or if adjudicated delinquent for an offense that would be classified as a felony if the student was an adult, or if the student was convicted of a felony, and the student's continued presence in school poses a danger to persons or property or disrupts the educational process." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(a)-(b))
Self-defense exception (Policy 6316). "If, as a result of an investigation, a school leader or his/her designee finds that a student acted in self-defense under a reasonable belief that the student or another to whom the student was coming to the defense may have been facing the threat of imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury, then the student may not face any disciplinary action."
Disciplining students with disabilities (Policy 6316). "Authorized charter schools shall ensure that all requirements of state and federal laws (including, but not limited to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973), rules and policies are followed when disciplining students with disabilities." "All discipline policies and/or codes of conduct for authorized charter schools shall include provisions addressing students with disabilities specifically."
In-school suspension (Policy 6316). "Students given an in-school suspension in excess of one school day shall attend either special classes attended only by students who have committed misconduct or be placed in an isolated area appropriate for study. Students given in-school suspension shall be required to complete academic assignments and shall receive credit for work completed." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(b)(2))
Procedures for out-of-school suspension, expulsion, or remand (Policy 6316). The pre-action floor and the twenty-four-hour parent-contact clock are quoted in the docket and the timelines below. (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(1)-(4); the same footnote in the policy's own legal references also cites Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975), without further discussion — the policy names the case, and this page goes no further than the policy does.) For a suspension running six to ten days, and for a removal falling in a term's last ten school days, the behavior-plan and final-examination provisions are quoted in the timelines below.
Suspension, expulsion, or remand for more than ten days (Policy 6316). "If, at the time of the suspension, the school leader determines that an offense has been committed that would justify a suspension/expulsion/remand for more than ten days, he/she may suspend/expel/remand the student unconditionally for a specified period of time or upon such terms and conditions as are deemed reasonable." The notice of the right to appeal to a Disciplinary Hearing Authority is quoted in the docket. After that appeal, the Commission itself retains a further check: "Subsequent to an appeal and decision by the Disciplinary Hearing Authority, the Commission reserves the right to modify an expulsion or remand on a case by case basis after review, in accordance with T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(4)(g)."
Remand (Policy 6316). "Authorized charter schools may remand students to an alternative school in accordance with the terms of a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding with the geographic LEA."
Required remand for suspensions of more than ten days (Policy 6317). "It is the Commission's philosophy that it is in the best interest of students to be in the classroom as much as possible." From that stated philosophy, "state law holds that an authorized charter school shall remand students in grades seven through twelve to alternative school for the period of the suspension, where space is available, absent special circumstances." "Students remanded to alternative school shall comply with the compulsory attendance law." (Policy 6317, T.C.A §§ 49-6-3402(c); 49-6-3001) "The required remand to alternative school may not apply to students found to have committed a Zero-tolerance offense requiring a one year expulsion." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(g)) Where a special circumstance arises, "the authorized charter school shall immediately notify the Director of Schools, or designee, of the special circumstance." "Special circumstance modifications will be considered by the Director of Schools on a case-by-case basis." (Policy 6317) "The authorized charter school shall be responsible for the continuation of special education services for students with disabilities if space is not available at an alternative school." (Policy 6317)
The Disciplinary Hearing Authority (Policy 6317). Each authorized charter school "shall establish" a Disciplinary Hearing Authority, "which shall conduct appeals for students who have been suspended/expelled/remanded for more than ten (10) school days." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(5)) Its composition is set by the same policy: "The governing board of the authorized charter school shall appoint a DHA which shall consist of at least two members (maximum number must not exceed total membership of the governing board). At least one DHA member shall be a licensed employee of the authorized charter school. All appointments are for one-year terms and subject to reappointment. Governing board members shall not serve on the DHA." "The governing board shall appoint a chairman of the DHA from the members appointed by the board. The chairman shall perform the following duties:" "Set the time, place, and date for each hearing;" "Maintain order and structure during each hearing; and" "Prepare, sign, and disseminate the minutes of each meeting." Once convened, the DHA "may take the following disciplinary actions:" among them, to "Affirm the decision of the school leader;" "Order removal of the suspension/expulsion/remand unconditionally;" or "Assign the student to an alternative program or night school; or," "Suspend/expel/remand the student for a specified period of time." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(5))
Zero-tolerance offenses (Policy 6317). "Certain zero tolerance offenses require a mandatory one calendar-year expulsion unless modified by the head of the charter school." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(g)) The Disciplinary Hearing Authority's role in these cases is narrower than in an ordinary appeal: "The DHA shall only have the ability to consider guilt or innocence of the zero tolerance infraction, and whether the student was provided with proper due process." "The DHA shall not have the ability to modify the mandatory one calendar year expulsion, however, the DHA may make a recommendation to the Director of Schools regarding a proposed modification of the student's mandatory expulsion." The Director of Schools "shall consider a recommendation from the DHA, if any, regarding a proposed modification of the student's expulsion, however, the Director of Schools shall not be bound by the recommendation." From there, the governing board's own authority is bounded too: "The governing board of the authorized charter school shall not have the ability to modify the decision of the Director of Schools with regard to modification of the student's expulsion. The decision of the charter school's governing board shall be final." "The DHA and governing board of the authorized charter school shall follow the same procedures and timelines for zero tolerance offenses and suspensions, expulsions, or remands of more than ten school days, unless otherwise stated herein."
The published process
- Notice of charges and the hearing right before long-term exclusion
- Before any suspension, expulsion, or remand — long or short — Policy 6316 states a floor: "Unless the student's continued presence in the school, class, or school-related activity presents an immediate danger to the student or other persons or property, no school leader shall suspend/expel/remand any student until that student has been advised of the nature of his/her misconduct, questioned about it, and allowed to give an explanation." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(1)-(4)) For a removal of more than ten days specifically, the authorized charter school "shall provide immediate written or actual notice to the student and parent or guardian of the right to appeal the suspension/expulsion/remand" and that appeals must be made within five school days, and the Disciplinary Hearing Authority must hold its hearing "no later than ten school days after the beginning of the suspension/expulsion/remand." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(4)(A))
- Services during exclusion
- For in-school suspension beyond one day, "Students given in-school suspension shall be required to complete academic assignments and shall receive credit for work completed." (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(b)(2)) Where a removal falls in a term's last ten school days, a student "may be permitted to take such final examinations or submit such required work as necessary to complete the course of instruction for that semester". (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(d)) The sources do not state a comparable continued-coursework requirement for the days of an out-of-school suspension, an expulsion, or a remand itself; that absence is a finding (Policies 6316 and 6317 were searched). Where a student is remanded to alternative school, "The authorized charter school shall be responsible for the continuation of special education services for students with disabilities if space is not available at an alternative school." (Policy 6317)
- The record made, and the appeal route
- After a Disciplinary Hearing Authority decision, "Within five school days of the DHA rendering a decision, the student, parent or guardian, school leader, or assistant school leader may request a review by the governing board, and the governing board shall review the record. Following the review, the governing board may grant or deny the request for a hearing or affirm or overturn the decision of the DHA with or without a hearing. However, the governing board shall not impose a more severe penalty than that imposed by the DHA without first providing an opportunity for a hearing before the governing board." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(6)) A governing board hearing is closed by default: "unless the student, parent or guardian requests an open hearing in writing within five school days of receipt of the notice, the hearing shall be closed to the public." (Policy 6317) "The decision of the governing board shall be final." (Policy 6317) For a zero-tolerance expulsion, the separate chain to the Director of Schools and then the governing board is quoted in the docket and in the timelines below.
- If the student has an IEP or Section 504 plan
- The disability layer (evaluations, the IEP team, manifestation determination, services during removal, and the dispute routes) lives on this site's Tennessee special education page. The discipline policy itself states: "Authorized charter schools shall ensure that all requirements of state and federal laws (including, but not limited to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973), rules and policies are followed when disciplining students with disabilities." (Policy 6316) Before a remand specifically, "the IEP team shall review the student's IEP to ensure the alternative education program is able to provide the services in the LRE. The IEP team shall make all decisions regarding change of placement and delivery of services. No student with a disability shall be arbitrarily placed in an alternative education program." (Policy 6317, T.C.A §§ 49-6-3402(c); 49-6-3001)
The four rows above answer the questions an experienced advocate raises first, from the state's own policy record, or record that a question is not answered in it.
Timelines, as stated in the sources
All quoted; none calculated. From Tennessee Public Charter School Commission LEA Policies 6316 and 6317, as retrieved Sep 2, 2026.
On parent notice after any suspension, expulsion, or remand: the school leader shall contact the parent or guardian "within twenty-four hours of the decision to inform him/her of the suspension/expulsion/remand, the cause for it, and the conditions for readmission". (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(1)-(4))
On the right to appeal a removal of more than ten days: "appeals must be made within five school days of notification of the suspension/expulsion/remand." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(4)(A))
On the Disciplinary Hearing Authority hearing itself: "The hearing shall be held no later than ten school days after the beginning of the suspension/expulsion/remand." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(4)(A))
On requesting an open hearing before the governing board: in writing "within five school days of receipt of the notice", or "the hearing shall be closed to the public." (Policy 6317)
On asking the governing board to review a Disciplinary Hearing Authority decision: "Within five school days of the DHA rendering a decision, the student, parent or guardian, school leader, or assistant school leader may request a review by the governing board". (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(c)(6))
On a zero-tolerance appeal to the Disciplinary Hearing Authority: students "shall be given the right to appeal to the DHA within five school days of receiving notice of the expulsion." (Policy 6317, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(g))
On the Director of Schools' decision after a zero-tolerance appeal: "Within five school days of the DHA rendering a decision, the student, parent or guardian shall have the right to appeal from the DHA to the Director of Schools to seek modification of the mandatory one calendar year expulsion." "The Director of Schools shall render a decision within seven calendar days." (Policy 6317)
On appealing the Director's decision to the governing board: "Within five school days of the Director of Schools rendering a decision, the student, parent or guardian shall have the right to appeal to the governing board of the authorized charter school regarding guilt or innocence of the zero tolerance infraction, and whether the student was provided with proper due process." (Policy 6317)
On when a behavior-improvement plan is required: "If the length of the suspension is between six and ten days, the school leader shall develop and implement a plan for improving the behavior when the student returns to school." (Policy 6316)
On completing coursework at the end of a term: where a removal "occurs during the last ten school days of any term or semester, the student may be permitted to take such final examinations or submit such required work as necessary to complete the course of instruction for that semester". (Policy 6316, T.C.A. § 49-6-3401(d))
A window the sources state but this page does not quote: Policy 6317 gives the Director of Schools a stated number of business days to decide on a special-circumstance modification of the required alternative-school remand, but the source document's own page layout embeds a footnote marker inside that number where the policy PDF was extracted, so no clean contiguous quotation of the figure is available without reproducing the stray digit as if it were part of the sentence; the change log records this as a capture artifact, not a missing fact.
What any of this means for a particular situation is for the agency and its processes to determine.
District delegation map
Tennessee's captured sources are the Public Charter School Commission's own policy for the charter schools it authorizes, so the delegate here is not an ordinary school district's board but "the authorized charter school" and its governing board — the sourcing note above explains why. Each entry below is a question Policies 6316 and 6317 expressly hand to that level rather than settling themselves. No school's own code of conduct or hearing procedures are captured or quoted here.
How the record of a Disciplinary Hearing Authority proceeding is kept, and whether a student may have an attorney. "The policy of the authorized charter school shall outline how the record of the DHA proceeding will be kept, either by transcription, audio recording, or audio/visual recording, and whether the student will have the right to have an attorney participate in the DHA hearing and if so, to what extent." (Policy 6317)
When the Disciplinary Hearing Authority and the governing board must decide. "The deadline for the DHA to make a decision shall be set forth in each authorized charter school's policy." The same delegation covers the governing board's own review: "The deadline for the governing board to make a decision shall be set forth in each authorized charter school's policy." (Policy 6317)
How a governing board hearing runs, including whether participants may appear electronically. "each authorized charter school's policy shall outline the requirements for participation in a hearing granted by the governing board, including whether governing board members and other participants will be allowed to participate electronically." (Policy 6317)
Remand to an alternative school. "Authorized charter schools may remand students to an alternative school in accordance with the terms of a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding with the geographic LEA." (Policy 6316)
Whether a special circumstance excuses the required alternative-school remand for grades seven through twelve. The authorized charter school must notify: "the authorized charter school shall immediately notify the Director of Schools, or designee, of the special circumstance." The outcome is delegated to that case-by-case process: "Special circumstance modifications will be considered by the Director of Schools on a case-by-case basis." (Policy 6317)
Records access, as stated in the sources
Policy 6316 states only how a disciplinary decision is entered into the school's own system, not what a parent may inspect or have corrected or removed: "Authorized charter schools shall document the disciplinary decision made in its PowerSchool System in accordance with the codes established by Commission procedure and guidance." (Policy 6316) The Disciplinary Hearing Authority provisions likewise address only how that hearing's own record is created — by transcription, audio, or audio/visual recording, delegated in the district delegation map above — not who may see it afterward or whether it is confidential. A parent's right to inspect a discipline record, and any process for correcting or expunging one, is not stated in the sources reviewed (Policies 6316 and 6317 were searched); T.C.A. § 49-6-3401 itself, which might carry such a provision, has no free first-party host, as the sourcing note above explains. Federal records rights under FERPA are federal and not restated here.
Source map
| Document | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| TN Public Charter School Commission LEA Policy 6316 (Suspension/Expulsion/Remand) | tn.gov | adopted April 9, 2021; revised July 24, 2026; retrieved Sep 2, 2026 |
| TN Public Charter School Commission LEA Policy 6317 (Required Remands and Student Disciplinary Hearing Authority) | tn.gov | adopted April 9, 2021; revised July 24, 2026; retrieved Sep 2, 2026 |
| T.C.A. § 49-6-3401 (suspension of students; expulsion of students), footnoted throughout Policies 6316 and 6317 | LexisNexis Advance (state's exclusive code contract; no free host) | not independently captured; see the sourcing note above |
| T.C.A. §§ 49-6-3402, 49-6-3001, 49-6-3007(h), 39-17-1301 (alternative-school assignment; compulsory attendance; charter-school definitions; weapon definitions), cross-referenced by the captured policies | LexisNexis Advance (no free host) | not independently captured |
| TN Public Charter School Commission LEA Policy 6313 (Student Discipline), cross-referenced by Policy 6316 | tn.gov | capture pending |
| District student discipline codes, and each authorized charter school's own DHA and governing-board hearing policies, adopted under state law and Policies 6316–6317 | each local education agency and authorized charter school | never captured; the district delegation map points at them |
Change log
Sep 2, 2026 · Deepened to a full page (discipline-layer deepening pass). Re-captured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/tennessee-discipline.json: Tennessee Public Charter School Commission LEA Policies 6316 and 6317 from tn.gov, by curl. The body text of both policies came back byte-identical to the Sep 1, 2026 baseline capture; the only differences the retention tool reported were the assembly date, the retrieval date, and a per-source artifact SHA-256 the capture tool now records in its own notes line, which was not recorded on Sep 1, 2026 — a change in the capture tool's bookkeeping, not in the source. retain-packet.py accordingly reported the pass as "retained" rather than "unchanged," which is worth recording plainly: nothing the page quotes moved. Built sections 01–02 (the framework route by route, the four hoisted process rows, the timelines section, the district delegation map, and records access) from the same two policies; no additional source was needed to reach full depth. Findings recorded: (1) the appeal chain for an ordinary (non-zero-tolerance) long-term removal runs Disciplinary Hearing Authority, then an optional governing-board review, whose decision is final, while a zero-tolerance expulsion runs a separate chain through the Director of Schools before the governing board; (2) the sources state a twenty-four-hour parent-notice clock, several five-school-day appeal and request windows, a ten-school-day hearing clock, and a seven-calendar-day Director-of-Schools clock, all quoted in the timelines section; (3) the policies delegate to each authorized charter school's own policy how a Disciplinary Hearing Authority record is kept, whether a student may have an attorney and to what extent, and the decision deadlines for both the DHA and the governing board; (4) the sources state continued coursework only for in-school suspension and for a removal in a term's final ten school days, and do not state a comparable requirement for out-of-school suspension, expulsion, or remand days themselves — recorded as an absence rather than assumed; (5) no parent right to inspect, correct, or expunge a discipline record is stated in the sources reviewed; (6) Policy 6317's special-circumstance-modification clock is stated in business days, but the source PDF's own footnote marker is embedded inside that number in the extracted text ("business 2 days"), so this page describes the provision without quoting the figure directly rather than reproducing the stray digit as prose; (7) Policy 6316's procedures footnote also cites Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975) alongside its T.C.A. pinpoint — named here because the policy itself names it, and quoted no further, consistent with this module's case-law exclusion; (8) as on Sep 1, 2026, this page describes the Commission's own charter-school policy, not the policy of any ordinary Tennessee school district, which is bound by the same statute but may state its own particulars differently; (9) T.C.A. §§ 49-6-3402, 49-6-3001, 49-6-3007(h), and 39-17-1301, and LEA Policy 6313, remain cited or cross-referenced but not yet captured; (10) the source PDF wraps "school-related" across a line break inside one of Policy 6316's fourteen numbered grounds, splitting it as "school-" then "related" at the wrap; the quoted ground preserves that spacing exactly as extracted, the same treatment as a wrapped word elsewhere in this project's own captures. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.
Sep 1, 2026 · Baseline page created (discipline-layer breadth sprint). Captured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/tennessee-discipline.json: Tennessee Public Charter School Commission LEA Policies 6316 and 6317 from tn.gov, by curl. Findings recorded: (1) T.C.A. § 49-6-3401, the actual suspension/expulsion statute, has no free first-party host — the Tennessee Code Commission's exclusive contract runs the official code through LexisNexis Advance, a login-gated platform confirmed by following the state's own listed public-access link, which redirects into an authenticated Lexis session; this page uses the Public Charter School Commission's own adopted policy for its authorized schools instead, since every provision in that policy carries a T.C.A. pinpoint cite; (2) suspension is defined as up to 10 consecutive school days, expulsion as more than 10 consecutive days or more than 15 school days in a month; (3) certain offenses carry a mandatory one-calendar-year expulsion, modifiable by the head of the charter school; (4) the appeal chain runs Disciplinary Hearing Authority, then (for zero-tolerance modification) Director of Schools, then the governing board, whose decision is final; (5) no address, phone number, or email for the Commission or a Disciplinary Hearing Authority appears in the captured sources; (6) this page describes the Commission's own charter-school policy, not the policy of any ordinary Tennessee school district, which is bound by the same statute but may state its own particulars differently; (7) T.C.A. §§ 49-6-3402, 49-6-3001, and 49-6-3007(h), and LEA Policy 6313, are cited or cross-referenced but not yet captured. Not yet built, pending the deepening pass: sections 01–02 (framework, hoisted rows, timelines), a representative district policy for comparison, the district delegation map, and records access. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.
Oct 16, 2026 · Internet Archive captures recorded. Captures requested this date by an automated capture pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: tn.gov → https://web.archive.org/web/20261016050119/https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tn-public-charter-school-commission/documents/rules-and-policies/lea_policies/july-2026-updates/6316_Suspension%20Expulsion%20Remand_Current_ADA.pdf; tn.gov → https://web.archive.org/web/20261016050310/https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tn-public-charter-school-commission/documents/rules-and-policies/lea_policies/july-2026-updates/6317_Remands%20and%20Student%20Disciplinary%20Hearing%20Authority_Current_ADA.pdf; tn.gov → https://web.archive.org/web/20261016050503/https://www.tn.gov/tn-public-charter-school-commission/rules-and-policies/lea-policies1.html. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.