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HB1017
School Board Authority for Alternative Instruction Settings
Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 3:29 AM
In one sentence
This law allows school boards to assign students with aggressive or violent behaviors that disrupt the school or affect safety to alternative learning settings and requires annual reporting on these placements.
What it does
- Allows a school board to assign a student to an alternative setting if the student shows aggressive or violent behaviors that disrupt the school.
- Permits this assignment when such behaviors affect the health or safety of the school, its program, or others in it.
- Requires each school district to report students placed in these settings to the Department of Education by the second Friday of June each year.
- Limits how the Department of Education can share data from these reports to only anonymized and aggregated information.
Who it affects
- School boards that make decisions about student placement
- Students who display aggressive or violent behaviors in school
- The South Dakota Department of Education, which receives the annual reports
Limits and unknowns
- The law does not change enrollment options already provided in state code section 13-28-40.
- School boards must still follow federal laws like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Alternative setting
- A learning environment where a student is assigned to receive instruction instead of their regular classroom.
- Anonymized data
- Information from reports that has been changed so individuals cannot be identified, and combined with data from other districts before being shared.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
permit the board of a school district to require that certain students receive instruction in alternative settings.
Official activity
Bill history
- Signed by the Governor