{"id":40218,"date":"2026-02-27T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40218"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:59:13","slug":"suspension-exemption-approved-for-young-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40218","title":{"rendered":"Suspension exemption approved for young students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 27 restoring Nebraska schools\u2019 ability to suspend pre-K through second-grade students in certain cases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24411\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24411\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114181&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenMurman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24411\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dave Murman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dave Murman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Introduced by Glenvil Sen. Dave Murman, LB653 partially repeals a 2023 law banning the suspension or expulsion of pre-K through second-grade students by creating an exception for those who engage in physical violence that harms others.<\/p>\n<p>Schools must provide parents oral and written notice when a child is suspended, including available resources, steps taken to address the behavior and strategies to keep the student in school. Schools also must hold a meeting with a parent, guardian or educational decision-maker following a suspension and allow such a meeting to be requested if it does not occur.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, LB653 requires option school districts that are not in a learning community to automatically accept siblings of currently enrolled option students with individualized education programs without regard to capacity limitations.<\/p>\n<p>LB653 passed on a 33-15 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 27 restoring Nebraska schools\u2019 ability to suspend pre-K through second-grade students in certain cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-40218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-dave-murman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40219,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218\/revisions\/40219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}