| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to waive accreditation standards for an accredited nonpublic alternative high school that contracts with a school corporation to provide alternative education services for students who: (1) have dropped out of high school; (2) have been expelled; or (3) were not successful in the school corporation; to accommodate the nonpublic alternative high school's program and student population. Provides that a school corporation that enrolls a student who has legal settlement in another school corporation for the student to receive services from a nonpublic alternative high school receives state tuition support for the student. Provides that a student who is placed in a residential facility is entitled to receive certain defined educational services from the school corporation in which the facility is located. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0283.1.html
Title: S.B. 283
Source: www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits two or more school corporations to publish notices, hold public hearings, and take final action for the adoption of property tax levies, property tax rates, and a budget for the reorganized school corporation after the voters approve a plan of reorganization in a general election. Provides that a conversion charter school must publish its estimated annual budget for the ensuing year. http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2012&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1058
Title: H.B. 1058
Source: www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires an accredited nonpublic school to provide sufficient verbal information to permit a requesting school to which a child transfers to make an appropriate placement decision when the parent of the child is in breach of a contract that conditions release of student records on the payment of outstanding tuition and other fees.
Requires the state board of education to conduct a second count of students enrolled in school corporations and charter schools in February of each school year, with the first count being in September. Expires the school funding formula on July 1, 2013.
Transfers the appropriation and funding for charter school start-up grants to the appropriation for state tuition support. Increases the amount of the charter school start-up grant for charter schools that begin operation in calendar year 2012 and provides that the grant is to be paid in six installments with one installment in each of the last six months of calendar year 2012.
Specifies that the amount distributed as special grants to school corporations to reflect the savings resulting from the education of students under a choice scholarship rather than in a school corporation are limited only by the state fiscal year appropriation and not the calendar year cap that limits the amount of state tuition support payable in a calendar year. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1189.1.html
Title: H.B. 1189
Source: www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that an individual is eligible for a scholarship from a scholarship program that is certified by the department of education if the student received a scholarship in a preceding school year, including a school year that does not immediately precede a school year in which the individual receives a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization. Provides that an individual must be a member of a household with an annual income of not more than 200% of the amount required for the individual to qualify for the federal free or reduced price lunch program each year that an individual receives a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0296.1.html
Title: S.B. 296
Source: www.in.gov |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Abolishes the state student assistance commission (SSAC). Abolishes the commission on proprietary education (COPE). Requires the commission for higher education (CHE) to administer the functions formerly administered by SSAC. Establishes the board for proprietary education (BPE). Permits the BPE to adopt reasonable rules. Specifies that the BPE must meet at least four times each year. Provides that the BPE is responsible for accrediting a postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institution. Provides that the CHE is responsible for providing staff and office space for the BPE. Specifies that the CHE is to determine the maximum higher education award and freedom of choice award, subject to approval by the budget agency with review of the budget committee. Requires the CHE to submit annual higher education award reports to the budget committee. Provides that the state workforce innovation council is responsible for accrediting postsecondary proprietary educational institutions that are non credit bearing. Establishes the office for career and technical schools within the state workforce innovation council. Provides that the market research of a postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institution may not be considered or required by the BPE as a condition for accrediting or renewing the accreditation of or for approval of the programs of a postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institution. Transfers proceedings pending before the Indiana commission on proprietary education on July 1, 2012, to the BPE for a proceeding pertaining to a postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institution or to the state workforce innovation council if the proceeding pertains to a postsecondary proprietary educational institution. Requires the auditor of state to transfer $300,000 of the balance of the career college student assurance fund to the career college student assurance fund administered by the BPE. Requires the state auditor to transfer the balance of the current career college student assurance fund to the student assurance fund administered by the state workforce innovation council. Requests the legislative council to assign issues relating to the accreditation of proprietary institutions to an appropriate study committee. Repeals: (1) provisions relating to establishment and administration of SSAC; (2) provisions relating to establishment and administration of COPE; (3) certain provisions requiring the CHE to provide SSAC information to implement the minority teacher or nursing scholarship program; and (4) definitions relating to SSAC or COPE. Adds transitional provisions. Makes conforming and technical amendments. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1270.1.html
Title: H.B. 1270
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the department of child services and organizations that have expertise in child abuse, including child sexual abuse, to identify or develop model education materials, response policies, and reporting procedures on child abuse, including child sexual abuse, for use by schools for grade 2 through grade 5. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0267.1.html
Title: S.B. 267
Source: www.in.gov |
Leadership--District Superintendent |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires a school corporation to give public notice and hold a public meeting pertaining to a proposed superintendent employment contract. Provides that the public meeting must occur at least seven days before a contract for employment is entered. Provides that the governing body is not required to disclose the identity of the candidate for superintendent at the public meeting. Requires that the governing body shall post the provisions of a superintendent's employment contract on the school corporation's Internet web site. Requires a school corporation to post the provisions of an employment contract with a certificated employee that is not represented by an exclusive representative on the school corporation's Internet web site. Provides that after a governing body and the certified employees' exclusive representative have reached an agreement on a contract, the governing body shall post the contract on the school corporation's Internet web site. Requires the organizer of a charter school to publish the names of the members of the charter school's governing body on the school's Internet web site. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1205.1.html
Title: H.B. 1205
Source: www.in.gov |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the education roundtable to establish an advisory committee on early education, with members from around the state, to provide professional and technical assistance to the roundtable. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0268.1.html
Title: S.B. 268
Source: www.in.gov |
P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits augmentation of appropriations for full-day kindergarten. Changes the amount distributed per child.
Establishes the select commission on education to study: (1) the process of adoption and content of rules adopted by the Indiana state board of education concerning categories or designations of school improvement including the matrices used for the A-F designations; and (2) proposed rules, adopted rules, and policies of the department of education and the Indiana state board of education to implement the provisions of P.L.90-2011, concerning teacher evaluations and licensing. Makes changes to the process in which a school corporation may modify the department's model staff performance evaluation plan. Makes changes to the definition of a turnaround academy. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/PDF/HE/HE1376.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1376
Source: www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires a state educational institution to adopt a policy to award educational credit to an individual who is enrolled in a state educational institution and successfully completes courses that: (1) are part of the individual's military service; (2) meet the standards of the American Council on Education for awarding academic credit; and (3) meet the state educational institution's role, scope, and mission. Requires that the commission for higher education must adopt rules that establish uniform guidelines for state educational institutions to follow when implementing the requirements. Provides that an occupational or professional licensure board shall issue a license, certificate, registration, or permit to a military service applicant or military spouse who meets certain requirements. Allows a board to issue a temporary practice permit or provisional license while the military service applicant or military spouse is satisfying certain requirements as determined by the board. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/PDF/HE/HE1116.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1116
Source: www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires the commission for higher education to create a common course numbering system, into which each state educational institution shall map its own course numbers, for courses in the core transfer library. Requires state educational institutions to create a statewide transfer general education core to be implemented by May 15, 2013. Provides that an individual who holds an associate degree is considered to have met at least 30 semester credit hours of the general education requirements for a bachelor's degree. Requires a state educational institution to accept an associate degree from another state educational institution as credit toward a related bachelor's degree. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/PDF/SE/SE0182.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 182
Source: www.in.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requests the legislative council to establish a study commission on the topic of school discipline best practices.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/PDF/HE/HE1169.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1169
Source: www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that no fee may be charged to a parent or student for transportation to and from school if a school corporation provides transportation or contracts with an educational service center to provide transportation. Provides that parent supplemental transportation contracts do not apply to transportation provided by an educational service center. Makes a technical correction concerning school bus replacement plans. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1134.1.html
Title: H.B. 1134
Source: www.in.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the center for deaf and hard of hearing education (center) to ensure that children who are deaf or hard of hearing acquire optimal communication and academic abilities. Specifies the duties of the center. Provides that before July 1, 2013, the office of management and budget (OMB) shall, in consultation with the Indiana School for the Deaf, the department of education, the state department of health, and the office of the secretary of family and social services, recommend to the general assembly through the budget process an appropriate agency to provide support for the center. Specifies that until the center is established and operating, the Indiana School for the Deaf shall continue to provide those services that will be transferred at the time the center is established and operating. Provides that the state board of finance and the state budget agency may not transfer for use by or for the center any appropriation made to the Indiana School for the Deaf by the 2011 budget act. Transfers the outreach services and consultative services to local education agencies to assist in meeting the needs of locally enrolled students with hearing disabilities of the Indiana School for the Deaf to the center. Provides that, before October 1, 2012, the OMB (in consultation with the Indiana School for the Deaf, the department of education, the state department of health, and the office of the secretary of family and social services) must submit a transition report to the state budget committee. Requires the OMB in developing the transition report to also consult with other specified entities, and to conduct two public meetings prior to submitting its transition report. Requires the OMB to post the final transition report on its Internet web site. Requires the state budget committee to consider the transition report in the state budget report and budget bill. Changes references throughout the Indiana Code from "hearing impaired" to "hard of hearing". Requires the state board of education to make recommendations before October 1, 2012, to the legislative council and to the state budget committee concerning the unique and appropriate methods of evaluation and accountability that should be applied to the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Indiana School for the Deaf. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1367.1.html
Title: H.B. 1367
Source: www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the education issues interim study committee to study the feasibility of establishing a process by which residents of a part of an existing school corporation may elect to disannex from the existing school corporation and either annex to another existing school corporation or establish a new school corporation. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1047.1.html
Title: H.B. 1047
Source: www.in.gov |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Adopted 01/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "college and career pathway", "quantitative reasoning" course, "priority course list" (for purposes of dual credit), and "dual credit courses". Requires students completing the minimum high school program to earn two credits (1 Carnegie unit) in either mathematics or mathematical reasoning courses during their junior or senior year. Amends requirements for Core 40, Core 40 Diploma with Academic Honors, and Core 40 Diploma with Technical Honors to require students to take mathematics or mathematical reasoning courses each year of high school. Amends the Core 40 diploma requirements to require 6 mathematics credits (3 Carnegie units) to be earned after a student begins high school. Amends requirements for the Core 40 Diploma with Academic Honors to require 6 of the 8 requisite mathematics credits (3 of the 4 Carnegie units) to be earned after a student begins high school. Amends the "other" options from which a student must choose to earn the Core 40 Diploma with Academic Honors to: (1) raise minimum composite SAT score to 1750 and requires a minimum of 530 on each section; and (2) require completion of the written section of the ACT. Replaces completion of IB diploma as "other" requirement option with option to complete 4 credits in IB courses and corresponding IB exams. Amends requirements for the Core 40 Diploma with Technical Honors to require 6 mathematics credits to be earned after a student begins high school. Amends "other" requirements for students to earn Core 40 Diploma with Technical Honors. http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/20120201-IR-511110327FRA.xml.pdf
Title: 511 IAC 6-7.1-1, 4, 5, 6, 7
Source: www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 |
A new section (20-28-9-1) requires increases or increments in a local salary scale based on the following factors: 1) Combination of the following factors can account for no more than 33% of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment (number of years of experience and the attainment of either additional content area degrees or additional content area degrees and credit hours); 2) Results of evaluation; 3) assignment of instructional leadership roles, including the responsibility of conducting evaluations; 4) academic needs of students in the school corporation. Teachers rated ineffective or improvement necessary may not receive any raise or increment for the following year if the teacher's contract is continued. Teachers may appeal. By January 31, 2012, requires the department of education to publish a model salary schedule that a school corporation may adopt, and each school corporation is required to submit its local salary schedule to the department, where they will be published to the department's web site. Modifies language concerning supplemental services contracts to allow administrators to select and pay summer school teachers. Clarifies that current teacher salaries cannot be reduced due to a new salary scale adopted to meet requirements of S.B. 1.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Salary Increases
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Defines "attend" for purposes of the compulsory school attendance law. Requires school corporations to have a policy outlining both excused and unexcused absences. Bill indicates that attendance is excused only if it is in accordance with the governing body's excused absence policy. It specifies that to hold a parent accountable for an attendance violation, notice must be delivered personally to the parent. The bill also requires a superintendent or attendance officer to report a habitually absent child to the juvenile court or the Department of Child Services.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/FISCAL/SB0001.007.pdf
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1--Attendance
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Beginning in 2012, school board members selected by election must be elected at general elections and take office the following January 1. Provides that a school board plan may be amended to allow for both election and appointment of the members of the school board. Allows a change in a school board plan to be initiated by the filing of a petition signed by at least 10% of the voters of the school corpation with the clerk of the circuit court. Provides for a public question to be placed on the ballot of the 2011 municipal election in Mishawaka asking the voters whether the method of choosing members of the governing body of the Mishawaka school corporation shuld be changed. Establihes, ifthe voters of Mishawaka approve the public question, a governing body of the members, three of whom are elected at large by the voters of the city, one of whom is appointed by the city executive, and one of whom is appointed by the city legislative body. Provides other details of the organization of the governing body. Provides for the election rather than the appointment of the members of the school board for the city of East Chicgo and adds certain other provisions concerning the composition and organization of the school board. Repeals provisions related to the election of school board members at the primary election position and organization of the school board. Repeals provisions related to the election of school board members at the primary election.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/EH/EH1074.1.html
Title: H.B. 1074
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
To be licensed as an elementary teacher, individuals must be able to demonstrate comprehensive scientifically based reading instruction skills, including: (a) phonemic awareness; (b) phonics instruction; (c) fluency; (d) vocabulary; and (e) comprehension (the last three are new). These are in addition to other prior requirements that included (1) basic reading, writing and math; (2) pedagogy; (3) knowledge of the areas in which the individual is required to have a license to teach.
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Proficiencies for Teaching Reading
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides defenses to the crimes of disseminating matter that is harmful to minors, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography if a cellular telephone was used and the defendant and recipient of the matter are certain ages and meet other requirements. Provides that a school corporation may offer classes, instruction, or programs regarding the risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials. Provides that discipline rules adopted by a school corporation must prohibit bullying through the use of computers, computer systems, or computer networks of a school corporation.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1083.1.html
Title: H.B. 1083
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/ |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department to develop a program to provide training and evaluations for school corporations in operational efficiency. Authorizes the department to contract with an outside entity to provide quality training. Requires any school corporation to submit any information that the department is necessary to evaluate the school corporation's current operations and to recommend operational efficiencies and financial savings.
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Operational Efficiency Reviews
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes an annual staff performance evaluation that categorizes teachers as highly effective, effective, improvement necessary, or ineffective. Allows school corporations to meet requirements for evaluation plans by using any of the following models: A plan using master teachers or contracting with an outside vendor for master teachers; the System for Teacher and Student Achievement (TAP); or the Peer Assistance and Review Teacher Evaluation System (PAR). Specifies components that plans must include, such as annual evaluations for all certificated employees; objective measures of student achievement and growth to significantly inform the evaluation; rigorous measures of effectiveness, including observations and other performance indicators, and an annual designation of highly effective, effective, improvement necessary or ineffective; an explanation of the recommendations for improvement and the time in which improvement is expected; and a provision that a teacher who negatively affects student achievement and growth cannot receive a rating of highly effective or effective. Specifies that a teacher rated ineffective or improvement necessary may not receive a raise or increment for the following year. Provides that a student may not be instructed two years in a row by two different teachers who have been rated as ineffective in the year preceding the student's placement in that class if avoidable. Changes the process concerning how teacher contracts are canceled (affects tenure). For any teachers hired after 7/2012, teachers with a rating of ineffective are considered probationary. Probationary status for teachers hired after 7/2012 is for one year, plus a new contract. Teachers hired after 7/2012 may be dismissed for incompetence, and incompetence is defined as an "ineffective" rating on 2 consecutive evaluations or 2 consecutive "improvement necessary" ratings or "ineffective" or "improvement necessary" ratings in 3 out of 5 years. Requires notice of cancellation of a teacher's contract not earlier than May 1 and not later than July 1. Eliminates the Advisory Board of the Division of Professional Standards of the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE). Repeals references to the advisory board and the existing staff performance evaluation provisions, and makes corresponding changes to related sections. Requires the IDOE to revoke the license of a licensed school employee if the employee is convicted in another state or under federal statutes of an offense that is comparable to the felonies for which the employee's license would be revoked if committed in Indiana.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/FISCAL/SB0001.007.pdf
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1--Teachers
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
From bill summary: Requires reduction in force to be based on performance. Requires that teachers subject to dismissal because of reduction in force be notified between May 1-July 1. Authorizes all teachers who are to be dismissed to request a conference with the superintendent. After meeting with the superintendent, permits the teacher to also request a conference with the governing body. Bill summary: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/FISCAL/SB0001.007.pdf
Bill full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Reduction in Force
Source: www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Adds new sections of law (20-28-6-7.5 and 20-28-7.5). PROBATIONARY STATUS: For teachers not under contract prior to 7/2012, a teacher is considered probationary if he/she was under contract after 7/2011, has not yet received a rating or receives a rating of ineffective, has not entered into a contract for further service, and has not received 3 ratings in a 5 year period of effective or highly effective. After June 30, 2011, a teacher who receives a rating of effective, highly effective or a combination for at least 3 years in a 5 year period becomes a professional teacher by entering into a contract. A professional teacher who receives a rating of ineffective will be considered probationary but is not subject to cancellation of the teacher's contract unless at least one of the following criteria applies: 1) receives a rating of ineffective in the year immediately following the initial rating of ineffective; 2) cancellation is due to a justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions; 3) contract cancellation is due to conduct set forth in IC 20-28.7.5-1(b). CANCELLATION of CONTRACT: After June 30, 2012, contracts cancelled due to a justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions must be determined on the basis of performance, not seniority. For teachers under contract prior to 7/2011, 2 years probationary for semi permanent teachers and 5 years probationary for permanent teachers. Lists reasons that allow for immediate cancellation of a contract: 1) immorality; 2) insubordination, which means a willful refusal to obey the state school laws or reasonable rules; 3) justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions; 4) incompetence, including receiving an ineffective designation on 2 consecutive evaluation or an ineffective designation or improvement necessary rating in 3 years or any 5 year period; 5) neglect of duty; 6) conviction for an offense list in law; 7) other good or just cause. Notice for any reason other than reduction in force must inform the teacher that, no later than 5 days after teacher's receipt of the notice, the teacher may request a private conference with the superintendent, and the superintendent must set the meeting not later than 10 days after.Teachers may also request a conference with the governing body.
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1 - Teacher Contract Renewal
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Indiana has recently enacted comprehensive collective bargaining reform for public education employees under Public Law 48-2011; and the legislation has substantially limited the nature and relationship of collective bargainin contracts to wages and wage-related benefits. Indiana school corporation contracts shall not exceed two years in duration and cannot force a school corporation to deficit spend. The Indiana Education Employment Relations Board is charged with the regulatory authority over the implementation of this new law. The Indiana Education Employment Relations Board consists of a chairperson, two board members and limited staff to implement this comprehensive reform effort. The Indiana Department of Education has extensive legal, regulatory and policy staff available to directly support Indiana Education Employment Relations Board in the implementation of this landmark legislation. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction is charged with the general supervision of public education and is the designated director of the Indiana Department of Education. The Indiana Department of Education has extensive legal and fiscal responsibilities related to the proper implementation of collect bargaining reform that can be more effectively and efficiently utilized with the direct oversight and leadership of the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby order that:
1) To further the goal of implementing the collective bargaining reform legislation, the three members of the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board who are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor, shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and administer the agency in compliance with such policies and procedures as may be established by the Superintendent.
2) This Executive Order shall expire upon the enactment of legislation by the General Assembly to codify the measures described in this Executive Order.
Title: E.O. 11-07
Source: http://www.in.gov/gov/files/EO_11-07.pdf |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows charter schools to opt in to the state health insurance plans. Establishes the charter school board as a statewide sponsor of charter schools. Provides that the department of education shall provide staff to the charter school board until the board begins receiving administrative fees from schools chartered by the board. Adds certain nonprofit private colleges and universities as eligible charter school sponsors. Establishes certain accountability criteria for charter school sponsors, and places charter schools under accountability standards for public schools. Adds: (1) student academic growth; (2) financial performance and stability; and (3) board performance and stewardship; to the list of items to be included in a charter school's charter. Requires uniform and consistent transfer of credits for students who transfer from a charter school to another public school. Stipulates that a teacher in a conversion charter school may be an employee of the charter school or the school corporation as determined in a charter school's charter. Provides that at least 90% of the full time teachers in a charter school must be licensed or in the process of obtaining a license. Ends the virtual charter school pilot program, and allows existing virtual charter schools to seek sponsors. Provides that a virtual charter school's funding is equal to the sum of: (1) the virtual charter school's ADM multiplied by 85% of the school's foundation amount (rather than 80% of the statewide average basic tuition support, under current law); plus (2) the total of any special education grants to which the virtual charter school is entitled. Provides that each school year, at least 60% of the students who are enrolled in virtual charter schools for the first time must have been included in the state's ADM count for the previous school year. Sets out the conditions, accounting process, and reporting procedures for a charter school sponsor concerning the collection of fees from its sponsored charter schools. Requires the department of education to establish a charter school page on the department's Internet web site. Establishes the charter school facilities assistance program and fund. Specifies the purposes for which grants and loans of money in the fund may be used. Provides that money in the fund may be used to match federal grants from the United States Department of Education for charter school facilities, and deletes current law that allows common school fund interest to provide these state matching funds. Changes the procedure for converting a public school into a charter school. Establishes a "trigger" for conversion of a school to a charter school with both parents and the school board signing off on the conversion. Establishes a process by which charter schools may lease or purchase unused, closed, or unoccupied school buildings that are maintained by school corporations and are not being used for classroom instruction. Permits the state board of education to close a charter school, transfer sponsorship of a charter school, or reduce the administrative fees collected by the sponsor of the charter.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1002.1.html
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school that remains in the lowest performance category for a fifth year becomes a turnaround academy. Requires the state board of education to set specific goals for a turnaround academy, and allows the turnaround academy to be operated by a special management team.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001--Turnaround Academies
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends and adds certain crimes for which the department of education must revoke the licence of a school employee. Requires applicants for certain licensed health professions to submit to a national criminal history background check. Requires the department to release the results of the national criminal history background check to the Indiana professional licensing agency (agency). Authorizes a licensing board to suspend, deny, or revoke a license if the applicant or license holder has been convicted of specified offenses. Requires the department and the agency to enter into a memorandum of understanding to provide data exchange and data matching regarding licensees who are charged with or convicted of an offense. Requires the personal information data exchanged to be kept confidential. Allows the board of a regulated occupation to designate a person to act on behalf of the board to perform certain duties when seeking a cease and desist order.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0363.1.html
Title: S.B. 363
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to receive, distribute, and account for funds received for career and technical education under federal law. Assigns to the state board responsibility for the planning and implementation of secondary career and technical education. Requires the state board to develop and coordinate career and technical education on a regional and statewide basis and to prepare budget requests for state and federal funds for career and technical education. Creates the advisory committee on career and technical education. Allows the state workforce innovation council (council) to make recommendations concerning the budget requests for the state board's review. Adds an individual recognized by an adult education organization to the membership of the council. Assigns to the council responsibility for the general educational development (GED) diploma program and the planning and implementation of postsecondary career and technical education. Assigns responsibility for adult education to the council and the department of workforce development (DWD). Allows an adult education program to include a pathway to obtain a high school diploma. Repeals statutes: (1) establishing the commission for career and technical education; (2) assigning responsibility for the GED diploma program and adult education to the state board; (3) assigning responsibility for postsecondary career and technical education to the commission for higher education; and (4) assigning secondary career and technical education to the council and DWD. Makes conforming changes.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1340.1.html
Title: H.B. 1340
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that, beginning with the 2011-12 school year, a virtual charter school may apply for sponsorship with a statewide sponsor in accordance with the sponsor's guidelines. It specifies the amount that a virtual charter school is entitled to receive in state funding. Also provides for a New Charter School Startup Grant for charter schools that initially are established and begin enrolling eligible pupils after June 30, 2011. This grant is equal to one-third of the school's tuition support of the following school year. The grant is to be paid from the Charter School Facilities Assistance Fund. Changes the current virtual charter school formula from 80% of the statewide average basic tuition support to 85% of the state foundation amount times the virtual charter school's complexity index.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001--Charter Schools
Source: http://www.in.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides a tax deduction for a parent who sends a child to a private school or home schools the child. Increases the school scholarship tax credits that may be awarded for donations to a scholarship granting organization. Prohibits a scholarship granting organization from limiting the availability of scholarships to students of only one participating school. Provides choice scholarships to students in families with income that is not more than 150% percent of the amount required for the individual to qualify for the federal free or reduced lunch program to pay the costs of tuition and fees at a public or private elementary school or high school that charges tuition. Requires fair admissions policies for schools eligible for choice scholarships. Requires an eligible school to include certain subjects in the school's curriculum. Limits the number of choice scholarships awarded per school year before June 30, 2013. Limits the choice scholarship granted to a student in grade 1 through 8 to $4,500 per school year. Provides consequences for nonpublic schools who receive: (1) consecutive low category designations for school performance and improvement; and (2) a distribution of choice scholarships. Makes conforming changes.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1003.1.html
Title: H.B. 1003
Source: http://www.in.gov/ |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education, in consultation with specified persons, to disseminate guidelines, information sheets, and forms to school corporations for distribution to schools to inform and educate coaches, student athletes, and parents of student athletes of the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries. Requires that a high school student athlete and the student athlete's parent be given information concerning head injuries and concussions and return a form acknowledging receipt of the information to the student athlete's coach each year before beginning practice for a sport. Requires that a high school student athlete who is suspected of sustaining a head injury or concussion be removed from play at the time of the injury. Provides that the student athlete may not return to play until the student athlete has been evaluated and received written clearance from a licensed health care provider trained in evaluating head injuries. Provides that a health care provider who, as a volunteer in good faith and gratuitously, provides head injury evaluations to student athletes has immunity from civil liability for acts or omissions arising from the evaluations, except for gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Effective 07/01/2011
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0093.1.html
Title: S.B. 93
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers to participate in a basic or inservice course of education and training on suicide prevention and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to provide information and guidance to local school corporations on evidence based programs for teacher training on the prevention of child suicide and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Provides that after June 30, 2013, an individual may not receive an initial teaching license unless the individual has completed training on suicide prevention and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Effective 07/01/2011
Title: S.B. 4
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides a Mitch Daniels Early Graduation Scholarship to a student who graduates from high school before Grade 12. It provides that the amount of the scholarship is $4,000. Requires the state board of education to amend its rules to facilitate graduation from high school in less than seven semesters and allows a student to participate in an early college, a dual credit, or a dual enrollment program during any grade in high school. Student would need to complete the necessary courses by Grade 11, apply for the grant and enroll in an approved postsecondary education institution.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001--Early Graduation Scholarship
Source: http://www.in.gov |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the education issues study committee to study the causes of low graduation rates in Indiana high schools and to identify and highlight certain ways of improving graduation rates. Effective 07/01/2011
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0085.1.html
Title: S.B. 85
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Vetoed 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Modifies the manner in which alumni members of the Indiana University board of trustees are elected. Requires all of the members of the board of trustees for Indiana University to be citizens of the United States. Requires a majority of the members of the board of trustees for Indiana University to be residents of Indiana. Allows the board of trustees to hold meetings at the dates, times, and places the board of trustees agrees upon. Repeals a provision concerning emergency appointments to the board of trustees of Indiana University. Requires a majority of the members of the board of trustees of Ball State University to be residents of Indiana.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1177.1.html
Title: H.B. 1177
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Names certain private colleges that qualify as approved postsecondary educational institutions. Specifies that students with associate degrees shall be treated the same as other applicants for scholarship awards. Requires attainment of a minimum cumulative grade point average to retain certain scholarships. In addition, with respect to the twenty-first century scholars program, specifies that certain applicants must attend an academic success program and meet certain financial need criteria. Limits scholarships and tuition remission programs to courses for an undergraduate degree and requires the scholarships be used in not more than eight years. Permits a scholarship to be used for summer classes and provides special rules for professional degree students. Provides a formula for calculating certain scholarships and tuition remission programs. Indicates that changes affecting tuition remissions for children of certain veterans apply only to children of veterans who enlist after July 1, 2011. Establishes a program for the collection of data from private colleges. Provides civil immunity to persons who provide the student data. Merges the higher education award fund and the freedom of choice grant fund. Makes other related changes.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0577.1.html
Title: S.B. 577
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Provides that an individual who is not lawfully in the United States is not eligible to pay the resident tuition rate that is determined by the state educational institution.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1402.1.html
Title: H.B. 1402
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1402.1.html |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires an applicant for an initial teaching license to be trained and certified in the use of an automated external defibrillator. Requires, after June 30, 2012, an applicant for the renewal of a teaching license to complete training and obtain certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, removing a foreign body causing an obstruction in an airway, the Heimlich maneuver, and the use of an automated external defibrillator. Provides that a school nurse, teacher, or other employee of a school is not liable for damages for providing emergency assistance to another person in the course of the nurse's or employee's employment unless the act or omission constitutes gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct. Effective 07/01/2011
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0176.1.html
Title: S.B. 176
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that during the period beginning with the adoption of a resolution by a school corporation to place a school levy referendum question on the ballot and continuing through the day on which the referendum is submitted to the voters, the school corporation may not promote a position on the referendum by taking certain actions.The bill provides that if a referendum levy is approved by the voters in a school
corporation in a calendar year, another referendum levy question may not be placed on the ballot in the school corporation in the following calendar year. It provides that if a school corporation imposes a referendum levy approved in a referendum, the school corporation may not simultaneously impose more than one additional referendum levy approved in a subsequent referendum.The bill prohibits a person or organization that provides goods or services to a school corporation under contract from spending money to promote a position on a school corporation's capital project petition and remonstrance, capital project referendum, or referendum tax levy, unless: (1) the person is an employee of the school corporation whose employment is governed by a collective bargaining contract or employmentcontract; or (2) the person or organization has a contract with a school corporation solely for the use of the school corporation's facilities.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1238.1.html
Title: H.B. 1238
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies certain requirements and recommendations for school corporation employee health coverage programs.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1260.1.html
Title: H.B. 1260
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Curriculum--Language Arts |
Adopted 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends 511 IAC 6.1-5-2.6 to include the utilization of the reading framework adopted by the state board of education as part of the required elementary curriculum. Adds 511 IAC 6.2-3.1 to define and require elementary schools to submit a reading plan and to define the components of the reading plan. Defines the reading instruction and intervention requirements and specific intervention. Statutory authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-32-8.5.
Title: 511 IAC 6.1-5-2.6; 511 IAC 6.2-3.1
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the governing body of a school corporation from using funds received from the state to bring or join in an action against the state unless the school corporation is challenging an adverse decision by a state agency, board, or commission.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0495.1.html
Title: S.B. 495
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Finance--Private Giving |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires a school corporation, including a charter school, to expend a proportionate share of its state special education grant on providing special education services to parentally placed nonpublic school students with disabilities.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1341.1.html
Title: H.B. 1341
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Indiana public retirement system (system) to administer and manage: (1) the public employees' retirement fund (PERF); (2) the teachers' retirement fund (TRF); (3) the judges' retirement fund; (4) the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund; (5) the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement fund; (6) the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 Fund); (7) the legislators' retirement system; (8) the pension relief fund; (9) the special death benefit fund; and (10) the state employees' death benefit fund. Creates a nine member board of trustees (board) for the system appointed by the governor as follows: (1) at least one member with experience in economics, finance, or investments; (2) at least one member with experience in executive management or benefits administration; (3) the director of the budget agency (or designee) serving as an ex officio voting member; (4) two members nominated by the speaker of the house of representatives: one an active or retired police officer or firefighter who is a member of the 1977 Fund and one TRF member; (5) two members nominated by the president pro tempore of the senate: one PERF member and one TRF member; (6) one member nominated by the auditor of state: the auditor of state or an individual with experience in professional financial accounting or actuarial science; and (7) one member nominated by the treasurer of state: the treasurer of state or an individual with experience in economics, finance, or investments. Requires that initial appointments to the board give a preference for those individuals who, on June 30, 2011, are serving as trustees of PERF and TRF, and provides that a PERF or TRF trustee appointed to the board serves until the trustee's term would have expired under prior law. Provides for a four year term for trustees. Provides that a trustee is strongly encouraged to complete annually at least 12 hours of trustee education. Provides that five trustees constitute a quorum and requires a majority vote of the trustees present in order for the board to adopt a resolution or take other action at a regular or special meeting. Requires the system's chief investment officer and the officer's staff to file annual financial disclosure statements with the inspector general. Provides that the board's powers and duties are the combined powers and duties of the PERF and TRF boards. Provides that each retirement fund continues as a separate fund managed by the board. Provides for a director of the system who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the board. Provides that employees of PERF and TRF remain members of those funds. Provides that new hires of the system become PERF members, unless the director expressly determines otherwise. Allows the board to establish contribution rate groups for PERF, and removes the requirement that each employer have a separate account within the retirement allowance account.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0549.1.html.
Title: S.B. 549
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Extends the use of temporary teacher contracts to hiring for positions funded by grants outside the school funding formula. Provides that wage payment arrangements may not contain terms beyond those permitted to be bargained. Provides that the statutory procedures for refusing to continue or canceling a teacher contract may not be modified by a collective bargaining agreement (agreement). Limits the number of teachers the exclusive representative may appoint to serve on statutory or locally created district wide and school wide committees of a school corporation. Provides that an agreement may not include provisions that limit a school employer's ability to restructure schools that do not meet federal or state accountability standards, or that limit a school employer's ability to enter into programs that offer postsecondary credit or dual credits to students. Provides that an agreement may not extend beyond December 31 of the year at the end of a state budget biennium. Prohibits certain subjects from being bargained collectively, and provides that prohibited subjects and items that lead to deficit financing may not be included in an agreement. Removes certain items from the list of discussion subjects between a school employer and an exclusive representative. Provides that collective bargaining begins before August 1 in the first year of the state budget biennium. Provides that if a complaint that is filed alleging an unfair practice concerning a subject of discussion is found to be frivolous, the complaining party is liable for costs and attorney's fees. Modifies the meditation process. Establishes a process for factfinding. Expands the purposes for which money in the capital projects fund may be used. Repeals provisions concerning minimum salary and salary increments for teachers, the definition of ''submission date", and a provision allowing the statutory procedures for refusing to continue or canceling a teacher contract to be modified by an agreement, certain provisions concerning mediation and factfinding, and makes conforming changes to related sections.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0575.1.html
Title: S.B. 575
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Expands the definition of ''textbook" to include certain hardware, software, and digital content. Adds a definition of ''curricular materials". Removes the authority of the state board of education to adopt a list of approved textbooks, and requires the governing body of each school corporation to adopt textbooks for the school corporation. Requires the department of education to review curricular materials, evaluate the curricular materials alignment to state academic standards, and publish the reviews, which governing bodies may use in making textbook adoption decisions. Repeals references to the state textbook advisory committee and the state board adoption of textbooks, and makes corresponding changes to related sections.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1429.1.html
Title: H.B. 1429
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Reading/Literacy |
Notices of Intent to Adopt Rules 10/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends 511 IAC 6.1-5-2.6 to include the utilization of the reading framework adopted by the state board of education as part of the required elementary curriculum. Adds 511 IAC 6.2-3.1 to define and require elementary schools to submit a reading plan and to define the components of the reading plan. Defines the reading instruction and intervention requirements and specific intervention. Requires the reading plan to include, beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, retention of a student in grade 3 if the student does not achieve a passing score on the IREAD-3 assessment during the previous school year or during a subsequent attempt at passing IREAD-3.
Statutory authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-32-8.5.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/
Title: 511 IAC 6.1-5-2.6; 511 IAC 6.2-3.1
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to suicide prevention training for school personnel; provides that health finance commission is to study the topic of teen suicide, including the root causes and prevention, during the 2010 legislative interim. Public Law 29
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/SE/SE0226.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 226
Source: http://www.in.gov/ |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to advanced placement exams; requires state educational institutions to grant postsecondary level academic credit to students who receive a satisfactory score on an advanced placement examination; requires the state department of education to develop a uniform job description for school counselors. Public Law 91
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/HE/HE1135.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1135
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Adds a new chapter to the code, Chapter 8.5--Reading Deficiency Remediation Plan.
Requires the state superintendent and the state board to develop a plan to improve reading skills of students and implement appropriate remediation techniques for students. In addition to appropriate consultation with parents or guardians, the plan must include the following: (1) Reading skills standards for grade 1 through grade 3; (2) emphasis on the method for making determinant evaluations by grade 3 that might require remedial action for the student, including retention as a last resort, after other methods of remediation have been evaluated or used, or both, if reading skills are below the standard; (3) fiscal impact of each component of the plan must be taken into account. For any component of the plan that has a fiscal impact, the state superintendent must present those components of the plan to the general assembly. The state board is to adopt rules to carry out this chapter.
Adds a new chapter to the code, Chapter 16—School Fund Transfers.
Allows the governing board of a school corporation to adopt a resolution to transfer money during the 2010-2011 school year from its capital projects fund if no employees of the school corporation will receive a compensation increase for the 2010-2011 school year, excluding certain incidental or automatic increases, certain reimbursement to teachers for completion of professional education development courses, and a compensation increase paid to a teacher as a result of the teacher receiving an advanced higher education degree. Provides that the maximum amount that may be transferred from a school corporation's capital projects fund is equal to 10% of the sum of: (1) the balance in the school corporation's capital projects fund on December 31, 2009; plus (2) the amount of the school corporation's property tax levy for its capital projects fund for taxes first due and payable in 2010. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation and an exclusive representative may mutually agree to forego any salary or compensation increases that would otherwise be required for the 2010-2011 school year under the statutes concerning minimum teacher pay. Requires school corporations to adopt a plan to take the actions necessary and desirable to preserve and protect institutional programs. Provides that the plan must address class sizes, curriculum or program offerings, certificated employee positions and teaching assistants, allocation of resources to students who are deficient in reading skills and limitations on employee and administrative salaries and other compensation. Public Law 109
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/HE/HE1367.1.html
Title: H.B. 1367
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to juvenile, education, and law enforcement matters; creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute; requires the work group to study and make specific recommendations concerning law enforcement, school policing, and youth; requires the law enforcement training board to include minimum basic training on interacting with juveniles; provides that a security guard employed by a school may not carry a firearm. Public Law 74
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to indefinite teacher contracts; removes the age limitof 71 for teachers who hold an indefinite contract. Effective July 1, 2010.
Public Law 43
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/EH/EH1005.1.html
Title: H.B. 1005
Source: http://www.state.in.us/legislative |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Adopted 08/2009 |
Postsec. |
Repeals rules regarding Family College Savings Trust Program Procedures and Operations.
Title: 540 IAC 1-1-1, -2, -5, -8, -10, -11, -15, -17, -18; 1-2; -3-1; -4;-7-2; -8-2, -8; -10-1, -2; -11; -12-1, -3, -4
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires public schools, charter schools and accredited nonpublic schools to provide instruction in personal financial responsibility to students in grades 9 through 12. Public Law 154.
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: H.B. 1581
Source: http://www.state.in.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the geothermal conversion revolving fund for the purpose of making loans to school corporations; requires a school corporation to enter into a loan agreement with the bank before receiving a loan from the revolving fund; provides that a political subdivision or its agencies may participate in a utility efficiency program or enter into a guaranteed savings contract; provides that a conservation measure includes installation of insulation in a political subdivision's facility.
Public Law No. 99
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: H.B. 1669
Source: http://www.state.in.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Includes a physician's designee and a pharmacist's designee as persons who may provide immunization data to the immunization data registry; adds a provider's designee and a child placing agency as persons to whom the State Department of Health may release information from the immunization data registry; requires a child to receive immunizations against meningitis, varicella and pertussis; relates to vision tests performed in the schools; requires schools to keep records of waiver requests. Public Law 161
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/SE/SE0219.1.html
Title: S.B. 219
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals to coordinate the delivery of services to vulnerable individuals in need of services; requires the Superintendent of the Department of Education or designee to serve on the board. Board is to meet every two months and provide quarterly reports to the governor and the general assembly. Public Law 173 http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/PDF/HE/HE1289.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1289 - Section 1
Source: http://www.state.in.us/legislative |
Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to educational assistance for foster care youth; requires the state student scholarship commission to annually report to the legislative council concerning data on the individuals who received certain assistance; establishes eligibility requirements for the twenty-first century scholars program for foster care youth; requires a caseworker of a foster child to provide information to the child concerning specified scholarship programs. Requires state agencies to jointly study whether there is a need for a foster care educational assistance program and to submit a report containing recommendations to the legislative council by October 1, 2009 concerning whether legislation is needed to establish a program and the best agency to administer the program. Public Law 100
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: H.B. 1681
Source: http://www.state.in.us |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends provision requiring school boards to develop local plans to provide appropriate educational experiences to high ability students in grades K-12. Requires plans to include best practices to increase the number of participants in high ability student programs who are from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/PDF/HE/HE1289.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1289 - Section 2
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Division of Professional Standards by July 1, 2010 to set standards for sign language interreters who provide services to children with disabilities
in an educational setting.
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: S.B. 057
Source: http://www.state.in.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates the dropout prevention fund, to be administered by the Department of Education, to provide money for school corporation programs that identify students who are at risk of dropping out of school; provides for development of appropriate interventions for those students; makes a continuous appropriation. Requires grant applications to include accountability metrics. Public Law 65
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1343.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1343
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec. |
Exempts a postsecondary educational institution from paying a fee for a limited pre-employment criminal history record; requires school corporations, charter schools and accredited nonpublic schools to conduct an expanded criminal history background check for a new or renewed teaching license or certificate within five years; adds possession of child pornography to the list of felonies for which a teacher may lose the teacher's license; establishes an administrative procedure for a student who has been removed from a classroom. Requires the attorney general and the Indiana Department of Education to annually notify teachers that the attorney general may defend suits against teachers and that teachers have qualified imunity for reasonable acts of discipline. Public Law 121
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1462.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1462
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to county auditor tax distributions; requires the county auditor to distribute the part of the certified distribution that constitutes property tax replacement credits to other taxing units not later than ten days after the county treasurer receives the distribution from the state; relates to property tax replacement credits to each civil taxing unit and school corporation that is a recipient of property tax replacement credits. Public Law 26
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: H.B. 1432
Source: http://www.state.in.us/legislative |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Health to adopt rules concerning indoor air quality in schools and state agencies; provides that after the State Department of Health inspects a school or state agency for indoor air quality as the result of a complaint, the State Department of Health must post certain information; provides for consideration of the effects of outdoor air quality when establishing criteria for school siting. Public Law 132
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0440.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 440
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec. |
Exempts the children of a public safety officer who is killed in the line of duty from the payment of educational costs for up to specified semester credit hours at a state educational institution or technical school. Public Law 51
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1165.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1165
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the governing body of a school corporation to develop an evidence-based plan for improving behavior and discipline in the school corporation, and a school within the school corporation to comply with the plan in developing the school's plan; requires school corporation discipline rules to incorporate a graduated system of discipline, which includes actions that may be taken in lieu of suspension or expulsion. Requires the Department of Education to develop a master evidence-based plan for improving student behavior and discipline upon which school corporations may base plans. Public Law 66.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/HE/HE1419.1.html
Title: H.B. 1419
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a city, county, or town to establish speed limits for schools located on streets or highways under the jurisdiction of the city, town, or county; requires that, after June 30, 2011, there must be a sign at or as near as practical to the point where a school zone begins, indicating the reduced speed limit for the school zone, a sign at the end of the school zone indicating: the speed limit for the section of highway that follows the school zone. Public Law 138
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1123.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1123
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to adopt standards concerning indoor and outdoor air quality and water quality as part of the nonbinding guidelines for school corporation construction, alteration, and repair of school buildings and athletic and other facilities. Public Law 168
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1097.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1097
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows a library services authority to merge with another authority or a nonprofit corporation, or both, to create a nonprofit corporation; provides for a free or reduced fee library card for a student who is not a resident of a library district but is enrolled in a nonpublic school located at least in part in the library district. Public Law 91
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1372.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1372
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to physicians allowed to certify that an individual is physically able to drive a school bus; allows a physician who is licensed in the state or a bordering state to certify that an individual is physically able to drive a school bus. Public Law 82.
Title: H.B. 1200
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the operator of a school bus or special purpose bus to visually inspect each seat within the bus at the end of each trip during which passengers are transported to determine that no passengers remain on the bus; requires the owner of a school bus or special purpose bus to report each incident in which a passenger is left on the bus to the Department of Education; makes a violation a Class C infraction.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/
Title: S.B. 228
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to autism training; requires certain firefighter and law enforcement personnel to be trained in interacting with individuals with autism; provides that the Department of Education shall create a document explaining aspects of autism including behaviors that students with autism may exhibit; provides that the document is to be distributed to school corporations for distribution to noncertificated employees. Public Law 93
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1455.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1455
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides for coordination of efforts among state agencies and other states to facilitate the transfer of students of military families between schools, including the transfer of educational and other records; provides for the recognition of coursework to facilitate timely graduation of students of military families. Public Law 21
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1107.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1107
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school corporation and an employee or the exclusive representative of its certificated employees with respect to those employees may agree to a wage payment arrangement which provides that compensation earned during a school year may be paid using equal installments or any other method over all or part of that school year or any other period that begins not earlier than the first day of that school year and ends not later than 12 months after the period begins. Public Law 41
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0263.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 263
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows the board of trustees of the public employees' retirement fund to establish by rule the valuation date for a member's annuity savings account and the frequency, allocation, and timing of changes in a member's investment selections for the legislators' retirement system; allows the state retirement boards of trustees to establish a single composite interest or earnings rate; includes the teachers' retirement fund. Public Law 165
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0536.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 536
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires school corporations to provide each student who applies for free or reduced lunches under the national school lunch program with an application for the twenty-first century scholars program; requires each school to give assistance in reading the instructions and completing the enrollment forms. Public Law 9
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1389.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1389
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Adopted 03/2009 |
Postsec. |
Repeals rules regarding the Family College Savings Trust Program, including application procedures, transfers, investment policies and contribution amounts. INDIANA 9191
http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/
Title: 540 IAC 1-1 through 1-12
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Adds school corporations, colleges, and universities to the list of entities that are eligible to apply for a grant under the E85 fueling station grant program. Public Law 4.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1193.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with nonprofit entities, the commission for higher education and state educational institutions to develop initiatives focusing on the recruitment and retention of qualified educators from underrepresented populations and teacher shortage areas; provides for information and scholarship opportunities. Public Law 10
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1479.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1479
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Technology |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Renames the educational technology fund as the Senator David C. Ford educational technology fund; provides a continuing appropriation to the fund and to the department of education from the fund in an amount sufficient to carry out the purposes of the fund for elementary and secondary schools. Public Law 31
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0027.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 027
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Adopted 12/2008 |
Postsec. |
Repeals rules regarding the Family College Savings Trust Program relating to eligibility, beneficiary definition, administration of Plan, making contributions to the Plan, cancellations and distribution of benefits. INDIANA 8936
http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/
Title: 540 IAC 1-1 and sections through 1-12
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/ |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Creates the interim committee to study issues that relate to adult education, including funding for programs.The committee is to operate by the rules established by the legislative council.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows certain law enforcement officers to inspect student attendance records and to enforce the attendance laws and requires an affidavit against a parent to enforce the compulsory school attendance law be filed in a court with jurisdiction in the county in which the student resides.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1234.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1234
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows for the transfer of congressional township school funds held by counties to the treasurer of state. The transfers may take place over a number of years.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1244.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1244
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Indiana residents who entered active duty military service after 9/10/2001, who received the Purple Heart decoration and who satisfy other criteria are exempt from tuition and fees at state educational institutions. The legislative council is also directed to assign a study committee to study the awards and exemptions given by educational institutions under reciprocity agreements with other institutions.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/HE/HE1249.1.html
Title: H.B. 1249
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
The bill established the concurrent enrollment partnership to coordinate dual credit programs among high schools and state educational institutions. The commission on higher education is directed to provide support for the partnership. Also creates the interim study committee on education matters to make recommendations on the following: 1. Availability of virtual learning; 2. how virtual learning services are provided in other states; 3. standards of quality and alignment to Indiana's content standards; 4. accreditation standards and pricing; and, 5. funding.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/HE/HE1246.1.html
Title: H.B. 1246
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to establish an Office of Coordinator for Education of Homeless Children. Each local school corporation is required to appoint a liaison for homeless children. The department of education is rewuired to provide trining for those liaisons. Also, allows a student who has resided in a school corporation for at least two consecutive years immediately before moving to an adjacent corporation to attend school in the former without transfer tuition being charged.
Title: H.B. 1165
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/ |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Reduces the waiting period after which a retired member of the state Teachers Retirement Fund may be reemployed in a covered position and continue to receive a retirement benefit; provides that a TRF member may change the member's beneficiary designation if the member and the member's designated beneficiary are parties in any action, final order or property settlement in an action for dissolution of marriage.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/SE/SE0210.1.html
Title: S.B. 210
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
From Center for Evaluation & Education Policy: Appropriates money for state agencies and makes other distributions. Specifies a school funding formula. Requires a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools. Changes references from vocational education to career and technical education. Creates a prekindergarten pilot program. Increases tuition support by approximately 3.7% in FY2008 and 3.6% in FY2009. Funds the Early Literacy Intervention Grant and the Reading Diagnostic Assessment programs at the continued level of $3.7 million/year and $1 million/year, respectively. Increases textbook reimbursement from $19.9 million to $39.9 million. Funds Full-Day Kindergarten at $33.5 million in FY2008 and $58.5 million in FY2009 with a cap of $2,500 per FDK student. Non-English Speaking Program funds were increased by $6.2 million to $6.9 million/year. Gifted and Talented Program funds were increased by $7.18 million to a level of $12.78 million/year. Testing and Remediation monies were increased by $10 million to a total of $41 million/year, while GQE Remediation funds remained level at $4.9 million/year. Creates funding of up to $100,000/year for school consolidation studies that school corporations can apply directly to the IDOE to use in order to assess the feasibility of consolidation or merging services with another corporation. Funds the school finance studies conducted by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University at $140,000/year. Requires a comprehensive study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools in Indiana and commissions the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy to complete the study. Keeps funding for summer school constant at $18.36 million/year. Funds education service centers at $2.32 million/year. Funds the Principals' Leadership Academy at $462,832/year. The Technology Grant Program was funded at $5 million for the biennium. Funds the School
Business Officials Academy at $150,000/year.
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: Center for Evaluation & Education Policy |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
A student who participates in:
(1) a postsecondary enrollment program under IC 21-43-4 is considered a student enrolled in the school corporation where the student has legal settlement for the purposes of computing ADM;
(2) a high school fast track to college program under IC 21-43-6 shall be counted in the ADM of the school corporation where the student has legal settlement if the student would be counted in the ADM of the school corporation had the student enrolled in the school corporation; or
(3) a high school fast track to college program under IC 21-43-7 shall be counted in the ADM of the school corporation where the student has legal settlement if the student would be counted in the ADM of the school corporation had the student enrolled in the school corporation.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - IC 20-43-4-8
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Repeals provisions establishing the vocational technical proficiency panel (also called the workforce proficiency panel); repeals a provision that requires the panel to adopt standards for postsecondary certificates of achievement for technical education programs; makes conforming amendments. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0345.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 345
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the board of trustees of Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University or Purdue University to establish a university-administered school in any county in Indiana in which the institution is situated. Allows a district board to enter into a contract with the board of trustees of one of the authorized institutions to educate students in a university-administered school.
Authorizes the board of trustees of Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University or Purdue University to establish at the institution's main campus laboratory schools for:
(1) developing, testing, and evaluating new methods of instruction and materials;
(2) comparing new methods with conventional methods in use; and
(3) training teachers in new methods of instruction and materials, as is found acceptable.
Directs an institution operating a laboratory school to prepare an annual report containing:
(1) a comparison of the results obtained by the new methods of instruction with the conventional methods of instruction; and
(2) the new methods of instruction recommended for general use in public schools.
Authorizes Ball State University to establish the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities as a laboratory school. Provides the academy must serve as both a public, residential high school and a program for public school educators. Authorizes Indiana University to establish the Indiana School for the Arts as a laboratory school. Provides the school must serve as both a public, residential high school and a program for public and nonpublic school educators. Directs both the academy for science, mathematics and humanities and the school for the arts to:
(1) establish an advisory committee that represents the education and business communities in Indiana (in the case of the academy) and the education and the arts communities in Indiana (in the case of the school for the arts);
(2) determine the standards for admissions and the curricula and courses of study to be offered;
(3) develop curriculum material for distribution and use throughout the public school system;
(4) develop programs to encourage interaction with public school educators (and nonpublic school educators, in the case of the school for the arts);
(5) make curriculum material available to students in public schools throughout Indiana by the use of telecommunications technology; and
(6) establish cooperative arrangements with private and public entities in order to effectively operate the program.
Authorizes the board of trustees of Vincennes University to establish a grammar school to teach foreign languages.
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 24.5
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Creates new article in the education code, "Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction."
Chapter 1. Purposes and General Provisions
Chapter 2. Authority to Allocate Expenditures to Student Instruction and Learning
Authorizes school corporations to take specific actions to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting savings to student instruction and learning. Authorized actions include:
(1) Creating insurance pools with other school corporations.
(2) Aggregating purchases of natural gas commodity supply.
(3) Consolidating specified purchases with other school corporations or units of government.
Authorizes school corporations to use shared services arrangements with other school corporations and units of government to provide instructional and noninstructional services.
Authorizes school corporations to collaborate with contiguous school corporations to explore the use of cooperatives among school corporations, commonly managed school corporations, or the consolidation of school corporations to provide effective and efficient management of the school corporations or functions within.
Directs educational service centers to support and facilitate actions by school corporations to pool resources, including by the use of an educational service center's existing cooperative agreements. Directs educational service centers to annually report to the state board the results of the efforts of the educational service centers during the preceding school year to help school corporations pool resources.
Chapter 3. State Board Action
Directs the state board to explore methods to reduce the expense to school corporations for the purchase of textbooks, technology, school buses and other vehicles, and other areas of expenses as determined by the state board. Directs the state board to annually survey school corporations to determine actions taken to allocate resources to student instruction and learning. Directs the state board to issue an annual report of actions taken to each school corporation, the public and the general assembly. Additionally requires the state board to report annually to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly on:
(1) Consolidated purchasing arrangements used by multiple school corporations, through educational service centers, and throughout Indiana.
(2) Shared services arrangements used by multiple school corporations, through educational service centers, and in Indiana as a whole.
(3) The efforts of school corporations to explore cooperatives, common management, or consolidations.
Directs the state board to analyze each school corporation's expenses for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years to determine how much each school corporation spent on student academic achievement expenditures, student instructional support expenditures, overhead and operational expenditures, and nonoperational expenditures. By June 30, 2007, requires the state board to report the results of the analysis to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly.
Provides that, for each school year using the 2005-2006 school year as a baseline:
(1) the office of management and budget must report to the state board, the governor, and the general assembly on the progress or lack thereof of each school corporation, of all school corporations in each educational service center's area, and in Indiana as a whole in improving the ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures for the previous school year;
(2) the state board must publicly recognize each school corporation and educational service center that has an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year;
(3) the office of management and budget and the division of finance of the department must be available to consult with and provide technical assistance to each school corporation that did not have an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year; and
(4) each school corporation must report to the public in its annual performance report and to the members of the general assembly whose districts include the school corporation on specified expenditures.
Requires, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, each governing body to establish goals for academic, instructional support, overhead/operational and nonoperational expenditures that will increase the school corporation's allocation of taxpayer resources directly to student instruction and learning. Directs the state board to recognize and reward the school corporations that meet their expenditure goals.
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 42.5
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Recodifies the law governing higher education. Changes references in provisions that cross reference to the law being recodified. Makes related changes. Repeals obsolete provisions. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision commission.)
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Recodification of Higher Education Code
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that a student who is in foster care or placed in the home of a relative or other unlicensed caretaker may enroll in the 21st Century Scholars program at any time before the student graduates from high school, is not required to be eligible for free or reduced price lunches to participate and is not required to have a custodial parent or guardian agree to the student's participation in the program. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1266.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1266
Source: www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Expands eligibility for the 21st Century Scholars program to grade 7 students, and beginning with the 2008-09 school year, to grade 6 students. Provides that an individual must be at least 18 or have withdrawn from school to receive a GED diploma. Modifies the formula for determining graduation rates, and adds an informational five-year and six-year graduation rate determination.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/HE/HE1647.1.html
Title: H.B. 1647
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows nonprofit colleges and universities in the state to work together to create bonding pools that would allow them to share the risk of borrowing funds. Requires that the funds from the bonds be used either to construct or renovate a school facility or for insurance reserves.
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Chapter 16.5
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html |
Postsecondary Students--Minority |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates a diversity committee at each state educational institution to review and approve employment policies concerning diversity; hear faculty and administration personnel complaints concerning diversity; makes recommendations to promote and maintain cultural diversity among faculty members; and make recommendations to promote recruitment and retention of minority students. Requires each committee to issue an annual report stating the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the committee to the board of trustees.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1256.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1256
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs each school's safe school committee to submit a copy of the floor plans for each building located on the school's property to the law enforcement agency and the fire department that have jurisdiction over the school.Provides that the floor plans must clearly indicate each exit, the interior rooms and hallways, and the location of any hazardous materials. Authorizes the governing body of a school corporation (district) to establish a school corporation police department, but requires such officers to have law enforcement academy education and pre-basic and basic training and to participate in continuing education programs. Establishes training requirements, powers and duties of a school corporation police officer, including the power to arrest, without process, all persons who within their view commit any offense. Requires at least one tornado preparedness drill and one manmade occurrence disaster drill during each semester.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0192.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 192
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Extends the maximum permitted length of a conventional school bus from 38 to 42 feet. Increases the highway speed limit for a school bus to 60 miles an hour.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1018.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires every school corporation police officer to complete training to enable the officer to appropriately deal with individuals with autism and Asperger's syndrome. Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers, school administrators, and paraprofessionals to participate in an inservice course on autism. Sunsets January 1, 2011.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1428.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1428
Source: www.in.gov |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student who is placed in a foster family home or the home of a relative or other unlicensed caretaker may attend school in either the school corporation in which the home is located or in the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement. Provides that if a student subsequently attends school in a school corporation that is not the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement, the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement must pay transfer tuition to the school corporation in which the student is enrolled in school if specific conditions apply.
Includes in the definition of a homeless student a student who is awaiting placement in foster care.
Authorizes the juvenile court to place a child in a public school, regardless of whether the public school has a waiting list for admissions, if the court determines that the school's program meets the child's educational needs and the school agrees to the placement. Authorizes the juvenile court to place or change the placement of a child in the home of a relative or other unlicensed caretaker. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0330.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 330
Source: www.in.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires an individual to have training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, removing obstructions to a person's airway and the Heimlich maneuver before obtaining an initial license as a teacher.
Creates a new chapter on care of students with diabetes. Requires that a diabetes management and treatment plan as well as an individualized health plan be prepared and implemented for each student with diabetes for use during school hours or at a school related activity. Requires that the diabetes management and treatment plan be submitted to the school nurse, and that the school nurse be involved in the development of the individualized health plan. Requires the school principal at each school serving a student with diabetes to seek school employees to serve as volunteer health aides, and work to ensure that the school has an adequate number of volunteer health aides to care for students.
Authorizes the department to cooperate with the state department of health to develop a diabetes training program for school nurses and for volunteer health aides. Directs the department to provide annual diabetes training programs to school nurses and volunteer health aides that includes technological advances, current standards of practice for diabetes management and training, and instruction in specific topics.
Directs a school nurse, or under specified circumstances, a volunteer health aide, to perform the tasks necessary to assist a student in carrying out the student's individualized health plan. Requires schools to allow students to engage in specific activities, such as administering insulin, if the student has been evaluated and determined to be capable of doing so as reflected in the student's individual health plan and the student's diabetes management and treatment plan. Requires school transportation staff or staff supervising a student with diabetes in an off-campus activity to be provided with an information sheet identifying the student, the potential emergencies that may occur as a result of the diabetes and appropriate responses to an emergency, and emergency contact information.
Adds that a school or school board may not require a teacher or other school employee who is not employed as a school nurse or physician to administer health care services, basic life support, or other services that require the teacher or employee to place the teacher's or employee's hands on a pupil for therapeutic or
sanitary purposes. Also provides a school or school board may not discipline a teacher or other school employee who refuses to administer health care services, basic life support, or other services that require the teacher or employee to place the teacher's or employee's hands on a pupil for therapeutic or sanitary purposes. Establishes immunity for acts or omissions by a teacher who has been trained in CPR, the Heimlich maneuver or removing obstructions to a person's airway.
Requires a school corporation, in reporting average daily membership (ADM) for the 2007-2008 school year, to also report the number of school nurses and the number of students, by disease category, who have a chronic disease, including asthma, diabetes, and any other disease the department of education determines is significant for the school corporation to report.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1116.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1116
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that for a teacher to be eligible for a stipend to cover expenses related to a summer training institute, the training must:
(1) Provide AP and pre-AP with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to prepare students for success in AP courses and exams and other advanced courses.
(2) Provide administrators, including principals and counselors, with professional development to create strong and effective AP programs.
(3) Provide middle school, junior high school, and high school teachers with AP vertical team training and other pre-AP professional development that
prepares students for success in AP.
(4) Support the implementation of an instructional program for students in grades 6-12 that provides an integrated set of instructional materials, diagnostic assessments, and teacher professional development in reading, writing, and mathematics that prepares all students for enrollment and success in AP courses and in college.
Authorizes the state department of education to seek federal funding through the Advanced Placement Incentive Program and the Math-Science Partnership Program.
Requires the state department of education to develop middle and junior high school curriculum guidelines that include a plan to increase the availability of the AP program in schools with a high concentration of low-income students, as well as the participation of low-income students in AP programs. Requires the plan to work toward these participation goals via information dissemination through various media that informs parents and students of the importance of AP and pre-AP courses to a student's ability to gain access to and to succeed in postsecondary education.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1300.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1300
Source: www.in.gov |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs each district to include a study of the Holocaust in each high school U.S. history course. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1059.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1059
Source: /www.in.gov/legislative |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs the state department of health to provide a school that enrolls grade 6 female students with information on cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The information must include:
(1) The latest scientific information on the immunization against the HPV infection and the immunization's effectiveness against causes of cervical cancer.
(2) That a pap smear is still critical for the detection of precancerous changes in the cervix to allow for treatment before cervical cancer develops.
(3) Information concerning the means in which the HPV infection is contracted.
(4) A statement that any questions or concerns concerning immunizing the child against HPV could be answered by contacting a health care provider.
Requires schools to provide the parents of female students entering grade 6 to be provided with information on the link between cervical cancer and the HPV infection and that an immunization against the HPV infection is available. Requires such parents to provide the school with a written statement within 20 days of the first day of school, indicating that the parent had received the information concerning the link between cervical cancer and the HPV infection and on the availability of an immunization against the HPV infection; and also indicating whether the student is or will be immunized or that the parent chooses not to inform the school whether the student was immunized. Provides that a student may not be prevented from enrolling in a school for the sole reason that the student has not provided the school with the written statement. Requires each school, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, to report to the state department of health and the local health department having jurisdiction the number of female students in grade 6 have (or plan to have) and have not been immunized against HPV infection, and the number of female students in grade 6 whose parent chose not to provide the information to the school concerning whether the student was immunized.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0327.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 327
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Changes references from gifted and talented to high ability. Changes the criteria for awarding grants to school corporations for high ability programs. Requires a school corporation to establish a program for high ability students, and sets forth requirements for assessments to identify high ability students. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0408.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 408
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires a parent to be notified if a student is being interrogated by the police on school property regarding an investigation in which the student may be a
suspect. Requires a law enforcement agency to notify the chief administrative officer of the school or the superintendent of the school district in which a child is enrolled if the child is taken into custody. Provides that certain agencies and entities may exchange certain information about a juvenile. Provides that a judge shall give written notice of a conviction. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1382.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1382
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Eliminates reference to professional standards board. Establishes the divisions of professional standards within the department of education. Allows the department of education to issue an emergency communication disorder permit to an individual to serve the needs of students who are eligible for speech and language services. Establishes eligibility requirements for an emergency communication disorder permit. Specifies that an individual with an emergency communication disorder permit must have access to a licensed
speech-language pathologist but may not use a title that states or implies that the individual is a licensed speech-language pathologist. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0451.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 451
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows a nonpermanent teacher ten days to request a conference with the governing body after receiving a notice of nonrenewal of the teacher's contract; provides that the governing body may not take action concerning the nonrenewal of the teacher's contract until after the ten day period has ended. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1489.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Issued 12/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Designates the Indiana Finance Authority as the entity to oversee and execute financial transactions in connection with the governor's 2007 higher education initiative.
http://www.in.gov/gov/press/media/eo/EO_06-18.pdf
Title: E.O. 06-18
Source: www.in.gov |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Adopted 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the established threshold for absences related to students in local school corporations and accredited nonpublic schools. The threshold of 20 percent must be used to report symptoms and health syndromes from outbreaks or suspected outbreaks of disease or other health conditions to local health departments. http://www.in.gov/legislative/register/20061213-IR-512060039FRA.xml.pdf
Title: 512 IAC
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies rules to add a definition to reflect that the responsibility for teacher licensing has been transferred to the Department of Education.
Title: 515 IAC 8-1, -21, -35, 28-2-6 and 515 IAC 9-1, -2, 1-2-2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Emergency Rule Adoption 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that a student who as earned an international baccalaureate degree is eligible to receive an academic honors diploma. http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/xml/old-ir/Vol29/10Jul/06E511060163.pdf
Title: 511 IAC 6-7-6.5
Source: www.in.gov |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires each school corporation (district) to conduct an informational count on May 1, 2007, May 1, 2008, and May 1, 2009 -- in the same manner and with the same standards as eligible pupils are counted to determine current ADM. The department must report the information obtained in the informational count to the:
(1) governor; (2) members of the education roundtable; and (3) executive director of the legislative services agency not later than thirty (30) days after the department receives the informational count reports for the year from all school corporations and transferee corporations. From the fiscal note: The bill specifies that the informational counts should include the following information:
1. A comparison between the number of eligible pupils on the informational count date and the number of eligible pupils in the current ADM.
2. Using a coding system developed by the Department of Education, the number (to the extent known by the school corporation or transferee corporation) of eligible pupils dropping out or otherwise withdrawing from the school corporation or transferee corporation after the date of the current ADM count, grouped by the reason or reasons for withdrawal from school.
3. Using a coding system developed by the Department: a. the number of suspensions and expulsions occurring after the date of the current ADM count, grouped by the reason or reasons for each suspension and expulsion; and b. the number and types of alternative educational placements that were provided or offered to suspended and expelled eligible pupils in each group.
4. The number of tuition transfer students accepted by a transferee corporation after the date of the current ADM count.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/SE/SE0173.1.pdf
Title: S.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires district report cards to report:
--The number and percentage of students participating in the school flex program, if offered (see IC 20-30-2-2.2 http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title20/ar30/ch2.html)
--The number of students who have dropped out of school, including the reasons for dropping out.
--The number of student work permits revoked.
--The number of student driver's licenses revoked.
--The number of students who have not advanced to grade 10 due to a lack of completed credits.
--The number of students suspended for any reason.
--The number of students receiving an international baccalaureate diploma.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 7
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows districts that before January 1, 2006 purchased U.S. savings bonds for graduates who earned an academic honors diploma to continue to do so for students graduating in 2006 and 2007. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/SE/SE0231.1.html
Title: S.B. 231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.in.gov/legislative |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Mandates that the department and the state board review the current statewide testing program and develop a long term plan that is subject to the approval of the state board for the transition to a testing program with the following objectives:
(1) To provide a long term plan for student assessments.
(2) To review the existing annual tests for students in grades 3 through 10.
(3) To develop a testing program that:
(A) reflects a student's proficiency in and mastery of the state's academic standards;
(B) is, to the greatest extent possible, more concise, less time consuming, and less expensive to administer than the current tests while maintaining the current level of rigor of the tests;
(C) provides prompt results to students, parents, and teachers;
(D) explores all options for timing and use of summative tests, including giving a summative test in the fall or the spring;
(E) measures individual student growth from school year to school year;
(F) explores all options for diagnostic tests for use by teachers to support ongoing remediation;
(G) is compatible with a transition to the use of online testing; and
(H) assesses student proficiency in written communication.
(4) To move to the use of online assessments for Core 40 subjects.
In developing the plan for the testing program, requires the state board and the department to:
(1) solicit information from educators, administrators, parents, and the public concerning the program;
(2) look at tests and testing practices in use by or in development by other states;
(3) solicit information from testing companies concerning:
(A) parameters and costs of tests;
(B) steps to be taken to ensure the validity and reliability of the tests;
(C) steps to move the longitudinal data from the current testing program to the new testing program; and
(D) any other information the department or the state board considers useful in developing the testing program;
(4) develop a plan to move to online tests;
(5) determine the most effective means to assess student proficiency in written communication; and
(6) include specifications for diagnostic tests for use by teachers during the school year.
Requires the state board, before November 2006, to submit a report on the testing program to the budget committee, the legislative council, and the office of management and budget. Specifies that the report must provide the estimated costs for the program beginning with tests given during the 2007-2008 school year.
Allows a contract for testing students during the 2006-2007 school year to be issued, but requires testing contracts for any subsequent school year to follow the state board's approval of the testing plan.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1240.1.html
Title: H.B. 1240
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows a student who is at least 16 but less than 18 years old to withdraw from school if the withdrawal is due to:
(A) financial hardship and the individual must be employed to support the individual's family or a dependent;
(B) illness; or
(C) an order by a court that has jurisdiction over the student.
Requires a written acknowledgment of withdrawal by a student who is at least 16 but less than 18 years old to include a statement that the student and the student's parent understand that withdrawing from school is likely to:
(1) reduce the student's future earnings; and
(2) increase the student's likelihood of being unemployed in the future.
Requires the department to develop guidelines for districts to follow in implementing the written acknowledgement provision above.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 12 and 18
Source: www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a student's guidance counselor, in consultation with the student and the student's parent, to review annually a student's career plan to determine if a student is progressing toward fulfillment of the career plan. If a student is not progressing toward fulfillment of the career plan, requires the school counselor to provide counseling services for the purpose of advising the student of credit recovery options and services available to help the student progress toward graduation. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 8
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows a district to authorize the absence and excuse of a student who attends any educationally related nonclassroom activity. Requires any educationally related nonclassroom activity and nonclassroom activity to meet all the following conditions:
(1) Is consistent with and promotes the educational philosophy and goals of the school corporation and the state board.
(2) Facilitates the attainment of specific educational objectives.
(3) Is a part of the goals and objectives of an approved course or curriculum.
(4) Represents a unique educational opportunity.
(5) Cannot reasonably occur without interrupting the school day.
(6) Is approved in writing by the school principal.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 14
Source: www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a sex offender from working or volunteering on school property, at a youth program center, or at a public park. Creates new section defining "offender against children."
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/SE/SE0246.1.html
Title: S.B. 246
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.in.gov/legislative |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the department to develop a plan to upgrade the financial management, analysis, and reporting system for school corporations (districts) and schools.
Requires the plan to:
(1) Provide the use of generally accepted accounting principles based on the system of accounting used by school corporations and schools on June 30, 2006, and a unified income and expense statement and balance sheet;
(2) Provide school corporations and schools the ability to track expenditures individually and according to the expenditure category the program under which the expense was incurred, and the school building where the expense was incurred;
(3) Provide real time or other timely access to expenditures, and across functions, schools, and school corporations; and
(4) Enable periodic and annual analysis and reporting to the leadership of a school, the superintendent and governing body of a school corporation, the general public, the department, the state board, the governor, and the general assembly.
Directs the department and the state board to submit the plan to the governor and the general assembly by October 1, 2006.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/HE/HE1006.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 4
Source: www.in.gov |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Section 3: Authorizes school corporations (districts) individually, in collaboration with other school corporations, and through the educational services centers to take action to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting savings to student instruction and learning. Such actions may include the following:
(1) Pooling of resources with other school corporations for various forms of insurance, whether by pooling risks for coverage or for the purchase of coverage, or by the creation of or participation in insurance programs,
(2) Aggregating natural gas purchases, and
(3) Consolidating purchases with other school corporations or units of government of the following:
(A) School buses and other vehicles and vehicle fleets.
(B) Fuel, maintenance, or other services for vehicles or vehicle fleets.
(C) Food services.
(D) Facilities management services.
(E) Transportation management services.
(F) Textbooks, technology, and other school materials and supplies.
(G) Any other purchases a school corporation may require. Purchases may be made by contiguous school corporations, as part of regional consolidated purchasing arrangements, or from consolidated sources under multistate cooperative bidding arrangements.
Authorizes a school corporation to use shared services arrangements with other school corporations and units of government, including:
(1) the use of shared administrative services overseeing transportation, food service, facilities, or other operations;
(2) the use of shared administrative services to manage finance, payroll, human resources, information technology, purchasing, or other administrative services; and
(3) the use of shared resources to provide instruction, supplemental services, extracurricular activities, or other student services.
Authorizes a school corporation to collaborate with contiguous school corporations to explore the use of cooperatives among school corporations, commonly managed school corporations, or the consolidation of school corporations to provide effective and efficient management of the school corporations or functions of the
school corporations.
Directs Educational service centers to support and facilitate actions by school corporations, including by the use of an educational service center's existing cooperative agreements. Requires the educational service centers to annually report to the state board the results of the efforts of the educational service centers during the preceding school year.
Directs the state board to explore methods, including statewide purchases, to reduce the expense to school corporations for the purchase of textbooks, technology, and school buses and other vehicles. Directs the state board to survey the school corporations annually to determine actions taken by the school corporations to allocate resources to student instruction and learning.
Directs the state board to analyze each school corporation's expenses for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years to determine how much each school corporation spent, from whatever source, directly or indirectly, on (1) Student academic achievement expenditures; (2) Student instructional support expenditures; (3) Overhead and operational expenditures; and (4) Nonoperational expenditures. Requires the state board to determine the types of expenses that are included in each category. Requires the state board, not later than June 30, 2007, to report the results of the analysis to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly.
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, and using the 2005-2006 school year as a baseline:
(1) Directs the office of management and budget to analyze and report to the state board, the governor, and the general assembly concerning the progress or lack of progress of each school corporation, all school corporations in each educational service center's area, and in the state as a whole in improving the ratio of student instructional expenditure to all other expenditures for the previous school year;
(2) Directs the state board to publicly recognize each school corporation and educational service center that has an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year;
(3) Directs the office of management and budget and the division of finance of the department to be available to consult with and provide technical assistance to each school corporation that did not have an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year; and
(4) Directs each school corporation to report specific data to the public in the school corporation's annual performance report.
Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, requires each governing body to establish goals for expenditures in the following categories: (1) Student academic achievement expenditures; (2) Student instructional support expenditures; (3) Overhead and operational expenditures; and (4) Nonoperational expenditures that will increase the school corporation's allocation of taxpayer resources directly to student instruction and learning, in light of the unique circumstances present in the school corporation. Directs the state board to recognize and reward the school corporations that have met their goals.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/HE/HE1006.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 3
Source: www.in.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to automatic external defibrillators; allows persons who provide emergency medical services to use an automated external defibrillator without requiring a certificate; removes the use of an automatic or semiautomatic defibrillator from the definition of basic life support and removes the requirement that an entity that acquires a defibrillator ensure that the users have completed certain courses and have enlisted a physician for medical direction. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1106.1.html
Title: H.B. 1106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows a student to demonstrate proficiency and receive credits in a subject area required for high school graduation or for an academic honors diploma in a manner other than by classroom work. Allows credit to be awarded through any of the following methods:
(1) Receiving a score that demonstrates proficiency on a standardized assessment of academic or subject area competence that is accepted by accredited postsecondary institutions.
(2) Receiving a high proficiency level score on an end of course assessment for a course without taking the course.
(3) Successfully completing a similar course via dual enrollment.
(4) Receiving a score of 3, 4 or 5 on an Advanced Placement exam for a course or subject area.
(5) Other methods approved by the state board.
Provides that a student who demonstrates proficiency in one or more courses or subject areas may not be required to complete a minimum number of semesters to graduate or to receive an academic honors diploma.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/SE/SE0310.1.html
Title: S.B. 310
Source: www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes public 4-year postsecondary institutions, Ivy Tech Community College and Vincennes University to establish "fast track to college" programs that allow students to simulatneously earn a high school diploma and credits for a college degree or, in the case of Ivy Tech and Vincennes University, a certificate program or associate's degree. Requires eligible students to be at least 19 and not enrolled in a school or at least 17 and have his/her high school's consent. Districts of eligible high school students are to pay the student's tuition for high school courses taken at the postsecondary institution.
To complete the requirements for a high school diploma under this section, the individual must have:
(1) passed:
(A) the graduation examination given under IC 20-32-4;
(B) an examination for a general educational development diploma;
(C) an examination equivalent to the graduation examination:
(i) administered by the postsecondary institution; and
(ii) approved by the department; or
(D) an examination that demonstrates the student is ready for college level work:
(i) administered by the state educational institution; and
(ii) approved by the department; and
(2) completed the coursework necessary to meet:
(A) the minimum high school course requirements established by the state board; and
(B) the requirements of the postsecondary institution.
Requires the postsecondary institution to notify the state board when an individual has completed a fast track to college program. Requires the state board, upon receiving notification, to (1) grant the student a high school diploma indicating the name of the postsecondary institution at which the student earned the high school diploma and (2) give the postsecondary institution the diploma to award to the individual. Requires a postsecondary institution establishing a fast track to college program to report annually to the education roundtable the number of program participants and diplomas granted.
Requires the state board to design a high school diploma for students who complete a high school fast track to college program.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 1 - 4, 6, 16
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires every high school to provide at least 2 of each of the following course offerings to high school students who qualify to enroll in the courses:
(1) Dual credit.
(2) Advanced placement.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 9
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires to state board to adopt rules to amend the academic honors course requirement rules to allow for a high school student who has earned an international baccalaureate degree to be eligible to receive an academic honors diploma. Allows the board to adopt emergency rules to carry out the intent of this subsection.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 17
Source: www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Requires all 4-year public postsecondary institutions to annually submit a report to the legislative council and the commission for higher education that includes the amount of need based financial aid and merit based financial aid available to students from all sources. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 5
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Establishes minimum standards for the owners and chief administrators of postsecondary proprietary educational institutions. Adds conditions to the list of provisions for which full accreditation of a proprietaryy institution cannot be issued: If the owner or chief administrator of the postsecondary proprietary educational institution has not been the owner or chief administrator of a postsecondary proprietary institution that has had its accreditation revoked or has been closed involuntarily in the five (5) year period preceding the application for accreditation. However, if the owner or chief administrator of the postsecondary proprietary educational institution has been the owner or chief administrator of a postsecondary proprietary educational institution that has had its accreditation revoked or has been closed involuntarily more than five (5) years before the application for accreditation, the commission may issue full accreditation at the commission's discretion.
Also raises the amounts of surety bonds required from postsecondary proprietary educational institutions, and increases the mature balance in the Career College Student Assurance Fund. Currently, if the fund balance in the Career College Student Assurance Fund is greater than $100,000, then the surety bond required of the institution is reduced. The bill removes the proportionate reduction in surety bonds and does not require a surety bond if the fund balance is $1 M or more. The increase would help insure that if a postsecondary proprietary educational institution closed, students would be able to recover tuition they may have paid.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/HE/HE1257.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1257
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Makes possessing a knife on school property or on a school bus a Class B misdemeanor; makes the offense a Class A misdemeanor if the offender has a previous unrelated conviction and a Class D felony if the offense results in bodily injury or serious bodily injury to another person; adds battery against, and the harassment of, a school employee to the list of offenses that must be reported to a local law enforcement agency; provides a definition of battery; provides for victims of harassment. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1093.1.html
Title: H.B. 1093
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that a special purpose bus may be used to transport homeless students.
Creates new chapter on transportation of homeless students. Defines "transitional school corporation" as a school corporation (district) in which a homeless student temporarily stays. Provides that if a homeless student temporarily stays in the homeless student's original school corporation but outside the attendance area for the school of origin, the original school corporation must provide transportation for the homeless student from the place where the homeless student is temporarily staying to the school of origin. Provides that if:
(1) a homeless student's school of origin is located in a school corporation in which the homeless student is not temporarily staying; and
(2) the homeless student does not elect to attend a school located in the school corporation in which the homeless student is temporarily staying;
the original school corporation and the transitional school corporation must enter into an agreement on responsibility for and apportionment of costs of transporting the homeless student to the school of origin. If the original school corporation and the transitional school corporation are unable to reach an agreement, provides that responsibility for and cost of transporting the homeless student to the school of origin must be shared equally by both school corporations. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1006.1.html
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 1 and 2
Source: www.in.gov |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes Chapter 11.5, the Double Up For College Program
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "postsecondary credit" means credit toward an associate degree, a baccalaureate degree, or a vocational certification granted by a state educational institution (as defined under IC 20-12-0.5-1) upon the successful completion of a course taken under the program.
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "program" refers to the double up for college program established under this chapter.
Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "secondary credit" means credit toward high school graduation requirements granted by a student's school corporation upon the successful completion of a course taken under the program.
Sec. 4. (a) The double up for college program is established for secondary school students in grades 11 and 12. School corporations (districts) and state educational institutions may collaborate to offer early college, dual credit, or dual enrollment programs that meet the educational objectives of the school corporation and are offered by the state educational institutions.
(b) A student may enroll in courses offered by a state educational institution under the program on a full-time or part-time basis during grade 11 or grade 12, or both.
(c) A state educational institution that participates in an early college, a dual credit, or a dual enrollment program may, by agreement with a school corporation:
(1) ensure that the content and rigor of each course offered is adequate to warrant providing credit to a student as if the student took the course as a student at the state educational institution;
(2) set the criteria for the faculty member, instructor, or other individual responsible for teaching each course with the:
(A) state educational institution responsible for hiring the personnel to instruct dual credit courses taught by the state educational institution; and
(B) school corporation responsible for hiring personnel to instruct dual credit courses taught by the high school; and
(3) determine with the school corporation the terms and conditions under which:
(A) students may be admitted to the program while attending high school;
(B) the state educational institution will award credit, if any, for specified courses successfully completed by students through the school corporation; and
(C) the school corporation will award credit, if any, for specified courses successfully completed through the state educational institution.
(d) A student is entitled to credit toward graduation requirements for each course the student successfully completes at the eligible institution.
(e) Courses offered under the program that are listed in the:
(1) statewide core transfer library courses that are transferable on all campuses of the state educational institutions in accordance with the principles in IC 20-12-0.5-13; or
(2) articulation agreements that apply to any campus in the Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana system and to Vincennes University and draw from liberal arts and the technical, professional, and occupational fields;
are among those eligible for the program. If a student passes a course through the program that is part of an articulation agreement between the state educational institution offering the course and other state educational institutions, the course shall transfer under the terms and standards of the articulation agreement between the state educational institutions.
(f) Based on the demand for enrollment in the identified courses and the resources available to the state educational institutions, the identified courses may be offered through:
(1) onsite instruction;
(2) telecommunication; or
(3) a combination of methods described in subdivisions (1) and (2);
at on-campus or off-campus sites.
Sec. 5. A school corporation may, by agreement with an institution of higher education, offer counseling concerning early college, dual credit, or dual enrollment courses that the school corporation considers appropriate, including:
(1) notice of the courses and schedule;
(2) available post-secondary credit;
(3) responsibilities of the student;
(4) any tuition and other costs;
(5) the consequences of the failure to complete a course; and
(6) other matters concerning the program and opportunities presented by the program.
Sec. 6. (a) A student may apply for enrollment to a state educational institution. The state educational institution shall accept or reject the student based on the standards ordinarily used to decide student enrollments. However, a student in the program may not be refused admission solely because the student has not graduated from a secondary school.
(b) A state educational institution may grant financial assistance to a student for courses taken under this program based on the student's:
(1) financial need; or
(2) academic achievement;
or any other criteria.
(c) A state educational institution shall waive tuition for a student who is:
(1) eligible for free or reduced lunch in high school;
(2) accepted into the program; and
(3) accepted for admission to the state educational institution.
Sec. 7. A student shall receive postsecondary credit toward meeting the degree requirements at the state educational institution at which the student successfully completed a dual credit course. If the student enrolls in a state educational institution other than the state educational institution at which a dual credit course was completed, the other state educational institution:
(1) shall grant credit for courses that are in the core transfer library or subject to an articulation agreement; and
(2) may grant credit for other courses.
Sec. 8. After June 30, 2008, a state educational institution or campus of a state educational institution that offers dual credit courses in liberal arts, professional, or career and technical disciplines must be accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 10
Source: www.in.gov/legislative |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows the governing body of a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school to hire an individual who is in the process of obtaining a teacher's license under the transition to teaching program, if the individual is obtaining a license in a subject area, or will be teaching in a school that is located in geographic area in which there is an insufficient supply of licensed teachers. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/SE/SE0172.1.html
Title: S.B. 172
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Districts are eligible for the academic honors diploma awards according to the number of students who successfully completed an academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the previous calendar year. Reduces the amount for which districts are eligible for each student. Adds that an amount received by a school corporation as an honors diploma award may be used only for:
(1) any:
(A) staff training;
(B) program development;
(C) equipment and supply expenditures; or
(D) other expenses;
directly related to the school corporation's academic honors diploma program; and
(2) the school corporation's program for high ability students.
States that a governing body that does not comply with these provisions for a school year is not eligible to receive an award for the following school year.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 201)
Source: www.in.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Defines "phonologic weakness." Requires the department of education to develop and implement a plan to
(1) train teachers, especially the teachers directly involved in reading and language arts, about phonologic weakness and its role in reading development;
(2) determine which reading instruments can be used to detect phonologic weakness before formal reading instruction begins;
(3) determine which reading instruments can be used to assess student reading and spelling development; and
(4) apply the results of the assessment using reading instruments to a child's instructional program.
Requires the department to develop a technical assistance manual related to the plan and adopt reading instruments to diagnose reading and writing development. Requires each instrument adopted to be based on scientific research concerning reading development and have adequate reliability and validity.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1488.1.html
Title: H.B. 1488
Source: www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to publish in its school performance reports, in addition to ISTEP scores, any nationally recognized comprehensive assessment program data submitted by a school corporation, including a charter school. Increases the review period for applications to become a charter school. Allows a charter school to provide online and computer instruction in the same manner as other public schools. Requires the department of education to obtain federal funding for charter schools. Indicates that a charter school may use a private auditor and prepare financial reports in addition to audits and financial reports required by the state board of accounts. Provides that the law governing grants to alternative school programs applies to charter schools. Allows the common school fund interest balance to be used for charter school facility financing. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0598.1.html
Title: S.B. 598
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
States that if the U.S. Department of Education approves a new competition for states to receive matching funds for charter school facilities, the department must pursue this federal funding. Appropriates $10 million from the state general fund to provide state matching funds for the federal funding beginning July 1, 2005, and ending June 30, 2007.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 129)
Source: www.in.gov |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Specifies that if a transferor school corporation fails to take action within thirty (30) days after receipt of a transfer tuition request, the request is considered approved. Provides that a student who is placed in a facility, a home, or an institution may attend school in the school corporation in which the facility, home, or institution is located, and that the state is required to pay transfer tuition for the student if no other person or entity is required to pay the student's transfer tuition. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0372.1.html
Title: S.B. 372
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires a United States flag to be displayed in each classroom of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to provide a daily opportunity for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Provides an exemption for students who choose (or whose parents choose for them) not to participate in the Pledge. Requires a school corporation to establish a daily moment of silence in each classroom or on school grounds. Repeals a law allowing an optional brief period of silent prayer or meditation. Requires the attorney general to defend a school corporation in a civil suit based on an act authorized under these provisions. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0332.1.html
Title: S.B. 332
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires each district's debt service fund to pay all unreimbursed costs of textbooks for the district's students who were eligible for free or reduced lunches in the previous school year. Authorizes the governing body to transfer the amount levied to cover unreimbursed costs of textbooks to the textbook rental fund or extracurricular account.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 183-184)
Source: www.in.gov |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes legislative intent that the state budget be reviewed comprehensively before the budgetary process for the next biennium begins in 2007. Asks the governor to direct the office of management and budget to thoroughly review the budget of each executive department agency and instrumentality and overall functions of the executive department of state government to find efficiencies that might yield significant cost savings. Requests that both the size and the scope of these agencies and functions be thoroughly reviewed.
Establishes the government efficiency commission. Mandates the commission to:
(1) Make recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs associated with any board or commission.
(2) Review and make recommendations to the governor concerning each board or commission about the following:
(A) Whether the board or commission should be continued, reorganized, or combined with another board, commission, or state agency.
(B) Whether the board or commission should terminated or allowed to expire.
(3) Make recommendations to reform K-12 education funding and budgeting as it relates to non-classroom expenditures so that adequate dollars are available for teacher training and classroom instruction.
Requires the governor to review the recommendations made by the government efficiency commission and, by December 1, 2006, submit a report in an electronic format with recommendations for reform to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 255-256)
Source: www.in.gov |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds a new chapter creating an Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Requires all state boards and agencies to comply with the policies and procedures related to fiscal management established by the OMB, cooperate with and provide assistance to the OMB.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 38)
Source: www.in.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires public and nonpublic schools to distribute materials concerning meningococcal meningitis and its vaccines. Requires the department of education to develop the material to be distributed. Provides for medication possessed by a school for administration to a student to be released to the student's parent or an individual who is at least 18 years of age or sent home with the student, if the student's parent provides written permission. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0326.1.html
Title: S.B. 326
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the requirement of approval from the school corporation and the student's principal for a high school student to enroll in the postsecondary enrollment program.
Requires the governing body of every school corporation to work with postsecondary institutions to grant secondary credits for any student attending a postsecondary institution while the student is attending secondary school.
Requires a school corporation and a postsecondary institution to enter into a contract for dual credit for a student attending the postsecondary institution while the student is also attending secondary school. Contract must define the terms and conditions under which each school will award credit for specified classes successfully completed by students participating in the program. Requires each eligible institution to keep, for each student enrolled in the program, records of the following:
(1) The courses in which the student enrolls and the credit hours awarded for those courses.
(2) The courses that the student successfully completes and the courses that the student fails to complete.
(3) The postsecondary credit granted to the student.
(4) Other information requested by the commission for higher education.
Adds that the commission for higher education is entitled to have access to these records. Adds that the commission for higher education msut join the state board of education in concertedly adopting rules to administer the postsecondary enrollment program.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1314.1.html
Title: H.B. 1314 (Section 14-21)
Source: www.in.gov |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, changes kindergarten eligibility date from age 5 by July 1 to age 5 by August 1. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 177)
Source: www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
Postsec. |
Requires the commission for higher education to establish standards for the transfer of courses between state educational institutions. Requires state educational institutions to set tuition and fee rates for a 2-year period. Adds that the state educational institutions may adjust the tuition and fee rates only if appropriations to the state educational institution in the state budget act are reduced or withheld, and that if a state educational institution adjusts its tuition and fee rates, the total revenue generated by the tuition and fee rate adjustment cannot exceed the amount by which appropriations to the state educational institution in the state budget act were reduced or withheld.
Requires the commission for higher education to complete the establishment of the initial core transfer library and for at least 70 courses and the initial articulation agreements for at least 12 degree programs before July 1, 2007.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 122-123, 242)
Source: www.in.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires schools to report the reasons for student suspensions and expulsions to the department of education, and to categorize suspended and expelled students by gender, ethnicity and disability status. Authorizes an agreement for court assisted resolution of suspension and expulsion cases between a court having juvenile jurisdiction and a public school corporation.
Provides that the agreement may require the court to do one or more of the following:
(1) Establish a flexible program for the supervision of a student who has been suspended or expelled.
(2) Supervise a student who has been suspended or expelled.
(3) Require a student who has been suspended or expelled to participate in a school program (including an alternative educational program) for the supervision of a student who has been suspended or expelled.
Provides that the agreement may require a school corporation to do one or more of the following:
(1) Define the violation for which a student who has been suspended or expelled shall be referred to the court.
(2) Refer a student who has been suspended or expelled for a violation described in subdivision (1) to the court.
(3) Establish a school program (including an alternative educational program) for the supervision of a student who has been suspended or expelled.
Provides that the court and the school corporation may jointly determine which violations leading to suspension or expulsion are eligible for referral to the court. Provides that the school corporation and the court must determine how the costs of supervising a student under the agreement shall be paid.
Allows the school corporation to disclose the education records of a student who has been suspended or expelled to a court. Provides that a parent or guardian has the right to be present during the student's appearance, and may be required to be present during the student's appearance. Requires that the discipline rules adopted by a school's governing body define "habitual truant" to include, at a minimum, a student who has more than ten unexcused absences in a school year. Permits a public school student who is at least 16 years of age and less than 18 years of age to withdraw from school by: (1) attending an exit interview; (2) obtaining the consent of the student's parent; and (3) obtaining the consent of the school principal. Requires that the school principal provide the student and the student's parent with information concerning the consequences of dropping out of school during the exit interview, and to provide the department of education with the number of students who withdraw from school. Includes certain additional groups of students in the determination of a school's graduation rate. Establishes certain procedures concerning a student who has left school and whose location is unknown to the school. Allows a school to establish a flexible instruction program for certain high school students. Makes technical corrections to conform with the Title 20 recodification
Title: H.B. 1794
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Defines "bullying", and requires a school corporation to adopt rules to prohibit bullying. Allows the use of grants from the safe schools fund to provide education and training to school personnel concerning bullying, and requires the inclusion of anti-bullying training in school safety specialist education. Requires each school to establish a safe school committee. Discipline rules adopted by governing boards must (1) prohibit bullying; and (2) include provisions concerning education, parental involvement, reporting, investigation, and intervention.The discipline rules must apply when a student is: (1) on school grounds immediately before or during school hours, immediately after school hours, or at any other time when the school is being used by a school group; (2) off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event; (3) traveling to or from school or a school activity, function, or event; or 4) using property or equipment provided by the school. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0285.1.html
Title: S.B. 285
Source: http://www.in.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Changes the name of the School for the Blind to the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Changes the title of "superintendent" to "chief executive officer" at both the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Indiana School for the Deaf. Adds that one of the qualifications for each CEO is at least 5 years experience supervising other people.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1314.1.html
Title: H.B. 1314 (Section 1-13, 22 ff)
Source: www.in.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the office of technology by combining the duties performed by the division of information technology of the department of administration, the information technology oversight commission, and the enhanced data access review committee. Provides that the office of technology shall assist the intelenet commission in continuing to provide those services supplied by the intelenet commission as of July 1, 2005. Provides that the office of technology shall assist political subdivisions in coordinating operations of information technology systems. Directs the office of technology to appoint a group to develop accessibility standards. Transfers to the new office the duties, rules, personnel, equipment of the combined entities, and funds (except for funds held by the intelenet commission). Makes conforming changes. Provides that the chief information officer of the office of technology participates in decisions made by the higher education telecommunications system. Specifies that county auditors and county assessors shall (1) transmit electronic property assessment data records to the department of local government finance and the legislative services agency (LSA) in a standard format prescribed by the office of technology and approved by LSA; and (2) archive electronic property assessment data records in the fashion prescribed by the office of technology and approved by LSA. Repeals statutes establishing the state information technology oversight commission, establishing the state enhanced data access review committee, granting various powers to the intelenet commission, defining intelenet in the public purchasing law, and referring to the intelenet commission in the law concerning immunity.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1137.1.html
Title: H.B. 1137
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Changes statutory references to the state professional standards board to the advisory board of the division of professional standards. Places the advisory board within the department of education. States that the advisory board of the division of professional standards is established to advise the superintendent, the board, the department, and the division on matters concerning teacher education, licensing, and professional development.
Creates division of professional standards of the department of education. Transfers from the state professional standards board to the department sole authority and responsibility for making recommendations concerning and governing teacher training education and teacher licensing matters. Adds professional development to these transferred responsibilities.
Gives the state superintendent authority to appoint the director of the advisory board, who shall be known as the secretary of professional standards. Requires the advisory board, before publishing notice of the intent to adopt a rule, to submit the proposed rule to the state superintendent for approval. Grants the state superintendent power to reject rules submitted for approval by the advisory board.
Creates the professional standards fund to be administered by the department. States that money in the fund does not revert to the state general fund at the end of a state fiscal year.
Requires the department to work with teacher education schools and departments to develop a system of teacher education that ensures individuals who graduate from the schools and departments are able to meet the highest professional standards.
Section 234 clarifies the transition from the professional standards board to the department of education.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (various sections)
Source: www.in.gov |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Rewrites IC 20-20-13-18 on uses of school technology. Requires grants for technology plans to fund uses that promote 1:1 computing infrastructure, e-learning and other uses of technology approved by the department of education.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 127)
Source: www.in.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, requires, with certain exceptions, a student to complete the Core 40 curriculum in order to graduate from high school. Beginning with the 2011-2012 academic year, requires, with certain exceptions, a student to have completed the Core 40 curriculum or a curriculum that is the equivalent to be admitted to a four-year degree program in a state educational institution. Adds the following options for students who fail to pass the high school graduation exam: Completes i) the course and credit requirements for a general diploma, including the career academic sequence; ii) a workforce readiness assessment; and (iii) at least one (1) career exploration internship, cooperative education, or workforce credential recommended by the student's school; or obtains a written recommendation from a teacher of the student in each subject area in which the student has not achieved a passing score on the graduation examination. The written recommendation must be concurred in by the principal of the student's school and be supported by documentation that the student has attained the academic standard in the subject area based upon:(i) tests other than the graduation examination; or (ii) classroom work. Upon the request of a student's parent, the student may be exempted from the Core 40 curriculum requirement. Itemizes other provisions that apply to students not completing the Core 40. Requires the department of education to conduct a study to determine whether a shortage of math, science, and special education teachers exists, particularly in urban and rural areas. Makes transitional provisions maintaining the current standards until the new standards take effect. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/SE/SE0200.1.html
Title: S.B. 200
Source: http://www.in.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to develop standards and guidelines concerning cheerleading safety in schools. http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2005&request=getBill&docno=301
Title: S.B. 301
Source: StateNet |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Title 20 recodification. Recodifies Title 20 concerning elementary and secondary education to reorganize and restate the law without substantive change. Repeals current Title 20 provisions. Makes conforming amendments.
http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2005&session=1&request=getBill&docno=1288
Title: H.B. 1288
Source: www.in.gov |
High School |
Adopted 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Adds 511 IAC 6-7.1, effective with the graduating class of 2010, to adopt new minimum high school graduation requirements, adopt new Core 40 diploma requirements, and adopt Core 40 with academic honors and Core 40 with technical honors diplomas to replace the current academic honors diploma. Defines a career-academic sequence as a flexible sequence of career-technical and academic courses that:
(1) help a student explore and prepare for a specific career area or group of related occupations;
(2) are selected and defined by school corporations;
(3) include progressive exposure to the world of work, with some leading to a certificate recognized by business and industry. Encourages students earning the standard diploma and any Core 40 diploma to complete a career-academic sequence. http://www.doe.state.in.us/core40/pdf/SBEfinalrule_2-3-05.pdf
Title: 511 IAC 6-7.1
Source: www.doe.state.in.us |
Class Size |
Signed into law 01/2005 |
P-12 |
Revises the funding formula for the K-3 class size reduction program. Effective retroactive to January 1, 2005. Makes other adjustments.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 181 and 233)
Source: www.in.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school to report to the local health department the percentage of student absences above a threshold determined by the department rule. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1202.1.html
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Indiana Legislative web site |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes a procedure for a person holding a state, legislative, local, or school board office to take a leave of absence when called into active military service and for the appointment of a person to temporarily perform the officeholder's duties during the leave. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1345.1.html
Title: H.B. 1345
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires every child who enters grade 9 and grade 12 to be immunized against hepatitis B until July 1, 2008. Prohibits the prevention of a child from enrolling in, attending, or graduating high school for the sole reason that the child was not immunized against hepatitis B. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1133.1.html
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Defines "cultural competency" and sets forth teacher training, professional development, and school plan requirements for achieving cultural competency. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1308.1.html
Title: H.B. 1308
Source: Indiana Legislative web site |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows a school corporation to use special purpose buses to provide regular transportation of school children from their residences to school and from one school to another school under specified situations. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1253.1.html
Title: H.B. 1253
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows a prisoner to receive additional credit time for a diploma or degree completed before July 1, 1999, if the prisoner has a good conduct record since the completion of the diploma or degree, unless the prisoner has been convicted of certain sex crimes and sex crimes involving children. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=482
Title: S.B. 482
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student who is expelled from a charter school is subject to the same requirements for enrollment in another school corporation as a student who is expelled from a public school or required to separate from a nonpublic school or a school in a state other than Indiana. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=186
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Revises policies a school may adopt concerning criminal history checks; requires a prosecuting attorney to notify the state superintendent of public instruction and the employer when a licensed school employee is convicted of certain offenses; revises grounds for which teachers' licenses may be revoked and contracts may be canceled; makes changes concerning liability in legal actions; provides civil immunity for making certain reports concerning a teacher; changes the law concerning seduction of a child at least 16 years of age to add certain actions that constitute the offense and to expand coverage to all employees of a child's school. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=1620
Title: H.B. 1620
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to distribute tuition support and other state funding to a charter school at the same time and in the same manner as it distributes funding to school corporations; provides that the governing body of a school corporation shall distribute to a charter school a proportionate share of local support upon receipt by the school corporation of the semi-annual distributions of property tax revenue. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=501
Title: S.B. 501
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires a child who enters kindergarten or grade 1 to be immunized against chicken pox after a June 30, 2004. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=1702
Title: H.B. 1702
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a school corporation to enter into an agreement with other school corporations and accredited nonpublic schools to provide joint summer school programs for high school students. Allows the joint programs to be conducted by state educational institutions and students to receive high school and college credit for the programs. Requires the scorer of an examination required for licensure as a teacher or school administrator to provide certain information to an individual who did not pass all or part of the examination. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=230
Title: S.B. 230
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Provides if a dependent student has resided with a caretaker relative other than the student's parent for at least 4 years, the student's eligibility to participate in financial aid programs administered by the state student assistance commission is determined according to the residence of the caretaker relative. Requires the income of the student's legal parent to be considered in making eligibility determinations.
http://www.state.in.us/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=117
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a governing body in an executive session to receive information about misconduct and discuss the status of a school bus driver, who is an independent contractor, or a physician, before the governing body makes a determination; makes provisions regarding public meetings; defines confidential records as regarding personnel information and security from terrorist attacks. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=169
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows flexibility in the time when a school corporation must hold a conference on the nonrenewal of the contract of a nonpermanent teacher so that both the open door law and the nonpermanent teacher's contract rights law are not violated. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=1734
Title: H.B. 1734
Source: Indiana Legislative web site |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes the required publication date and some components of school corporation annual performance reports. Provides for reports to be made available on the Internet. Requires school corporations to provide free copies of reports upon request. Removes language concerning the performance based accreditation program. Provides a method for calculating the graduation rate for high school students. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&session=1&request=getBill&docno=1120#latest_info
Title: H.B. 1120
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
Postsec. |
State educational institution credit agreements. Requires the statewide transfer and articulation committee to: (1) submit an annual report to the legislative council; (2) develop statewide transfer of credit agreements for courses that are most frequently taken by undergraduates; (3) develop statewide agreements under which associates of arts and associate of science programs articulate fully with related baccalaureate degree programs; and (4) publicize a master list of course transfer of credit and program articulation agreements. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2003/HE/HE1209.1.html
Title: H.B. 1209
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
Postsec. |
Adds the children and surviving spouses of paramedics, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and advanced emergency medical technicians to the list of persons who are eligible for tuition exemptions at state supported colleges, universities, and technical schools if their parent or spouse was killed in the line of duty.
Title: H.B. 1278
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Supplemental Education Services Application (dated August 2002); closing date: 10/4/02 (http://paris.doe.state.in.us/downloads/SuppServicesApp.doc)
Source: Indiana Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 |
2002 Consolidated Plan (dated 6/12/02): http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/esea/pdf/Indiana_esea.PDF
Source: Indiana Department of Education Web site |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes the required publication date and some components of school corporation annual performance reports; provides for reports to be made available on the Internet; requires school corporations to provide free copies of reports to persons who request copies; removes language concerning the obsolete performance based accreditation program; moves the September 2002 publication date to January 2003.
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires every district to review district's programs to judge if district's practices of separating students by ability, placing students into educational tracks, or using test results to screen students result in the systematic separation of students by race, color, creed, national origin or socioeconomic status.
Title: S.B. 292
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Background Checks |
Vetoed 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires a prosecuting attorney to notify the state superintendent of public instruction and the employer when a licensed school employee is convicted of certain offenses; makes changes in the grounds for which teachers' licenses may be revoked and contracts may be canceled; requires consultation with a teacher before action is initiated to discipline a student. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2002/HE/HE1202.1.html
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to establish a list of approved secondary level vocational education courses and provides a procedure for high schools to offer courses on this list; removes an obsolete provision.
Title: H.B. 1099
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes specifications as regards charter school finance and required minimum contents of charter school proposals. Requires charter school sponsor to notify charter school organizer of acceptance or rejection of school proposal within 60 days of organizer's submission of proposal. Clarifies that after calendar year 2001, maximum number of charter schools established by the mayor of Indianapolis may increase by five over maximum number for the previous year (in 2001, mayor was permitted to establish maximum of five charter schools.) Specifies that district services provided to a charter school, including transportation, may be provided at not more than 103% of actual cost of services. Clarifies that postsecondary institution sponsoring charter school may receive from charter school organizer an administrative fee of maximum of 3% of total amount that governing body distributes in specified sections of code.
Title: S.B. 216
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to the voting and nonvoting members of the state school bus committee; requires the committee to adopt rules allowing the display of the United States flag on school buses; amends the definition of a special purpose bus to include a motor vehicle owned by a school corporation used to transport children that complies with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and has certain other specifications. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?document=HE/HE1133.1.html&year=2002
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: www.in.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Expands the definition of educational facility project for purposes of the Indiana Development Finance Authority Law to permit the authority to provide funding to certain nonprofit corporations for real property and improvements, personal property, and noncapital costs to fund a judgment, settlement, or other cost or liability.
Title: H.B. 1143
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes certain changes in the guaranteed energy savings contracts law used by school corporations and political subdivisions; provides that actual savings may include stipulated savings that are documented by industry engineering standards, and that causally connected work is work that is required to properly implement an energy conservation measure.
Title: H.B. 1158
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows the governing body of a school corporation to donate specified sources of revenue to a charitable nonprofit community foundation if the foundation retains all rights to the donation and agrees to: (1) hold the donation as a permanent endowment; (2) distribute income from the donation only to the school corporation; and (3) return the donation to the school corporation's general fund under certain conditions.
Title: H.B. 1201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department of health to establish an indoor air quality in schools program, and to inspect the air quality of schools annually. Establishes the school air quality panel. Allows monies from a school corporation's capital projects fund to carry out a indoor air quality improvement plan as established in statute. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?document=SE/SE0407.1.html&year=2002
Title: S.B. 407
Source: www.in.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. |
Provides that a student, before enrolling in a residential campus at a public university, must be immunized for meningococcal disease or qualify for an exemption from the immunization requirement.
Title: H.B. 1161
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Extends the expiration date of the law establishing the board for the coordination of child care regulation and the terms of board members; permits the board or a subcommittee of the board to meet any time; requires the board to establish a subcommittee to make recommendations concerning revisions to the child care system and the regulation of preschools. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?document=HE/HE1214.1.html&year=2002
Title: H.B. 1214
Source: www.in.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Renames the Family College Savings Plan the College Choice Plan; conforms definitions used in the education savings program law to recent changes to the federal enabling statute; repeals provisions concerning the program investment policies, the prohibition against the account owner directing the investment of contributions, the exemption from State income taxation for distributions and the requirement of cash only contributions.
Title: H.B. 1273
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the Director of the Division of Special Education to coordinate an interagency task force to review services and funding sources available for children and young adults with disabilities and their families.
Title: S.B. 290
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Deletes requirement that Education Roundtable include representative of "special education." Requires the Education Roundtable to include a representative of education programs for "exceptional learners." Establishes definition of "exceptional learners" as both students with a disability and high-ability students. Requires that state resources program provide integrated services that include support for educators taking professional development leading to endorsement or licensure in gifted and talented education. Mandates that department use appropriations for information and materials resource centers to offer grants to districts for programs for high-ability students. Districts qualify for such grants if 1) their district plan for provision of services to high-ability K-12 students provides for multiple means of identifying high-ability students, including procedures for students who may not be identified through traditional means due to economic disadvantage, cultural background, underachievement or disabilities; and 2) the plan aligns with the strategic and continuous school improvement and achievement plans for district schools. Requires every school's three-year strategic and continuous school improvement and achievement plan to address the learning needs of all students, including programs and services for exceptional learners.
Title: S.B. 292
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Vetoed 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides a cost of living adjustment in 2003 for pensions of members of the Public Employees' Retirement Fund or their survivors or beneficiaries; provides a cost of living adjustment in 2003 to members of the state Teachers' Retirement Fund or their survivors or beneficiaries, who retired or were disabled before 7/2/2000.
Title: H.B. 1065
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Vetoed 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Assigns school employees to different service credit accounts based on employment pre- or post-1996.
Title: S.B. 233
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Section formerly required each school to develop staff performance evaluation plan that would examine each employee's performance. New language requires each school's staff performance evaluation plan to evaluate "the school's and the school's educators' performance." Former language said evaluation of employees' performance should be based on separate teacher and administrator performance indicators such as the development of parental involvement, student performance on assessments and the teacher's attendance rates for teachers; and student attendance and graduation rates, teacher/student ratio and classroom expenditures per student for administrators. New language deletes these requirements, replacing them with evaluation of performance based on the school's students' performance improvement level including student performance on assessment programs, graduation rates, student SAT scores, and local board-developed standards consistent with state academic standards and student performance improvement levels. Eliminates requirement that local board staff performance evaluation plan provide that teachers be evaluated twice each school year. Specifies that existing sections of code requiring every public school teacher to be employed on a statewide, unamended, uniform teacher's contract apply only to certified district employees. Specifies that a teacher's students' performance improvement levels on state assessment may be used as a factor, but not the only factor, to evaluate a teacher's performance.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Eliminates language that defined "expected [school] performance level" by student attendance rates, remediation rates, assessment scores and graduation rates; replaces it with definition of "student performance improvement level" which refers to "improvement in student academic achievement established by the board," which must be at least as rigorous as the performance improvement level set by state board. Changes sections relating to school performance to reflect change from school performance objectives to student improvement levels. Specifies that board assessment and evaluation of education programs offered by the district must be on annual basis, and that assessment must consider the students' status regarding achieving student performance improvement levels. Replaces language requiring board to establish annual performance objectives for each school with language requiring board to establish annual student performance improvement levels for each school that are at least as rigorous as state board student performance improvement levels.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Deletes language permitting local board to place school in academic receivership if school fails for four consecutive school years to attain expected performance levels. Beginning with 2002-03 school year, requires local board to place school in academic receivership if for two consecutive academic years school has not met student performance improvement levels.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Creates new section establishing charter schools in the state. Permits mayor of Indianapolis to serve as a sponsor of a charter school within the city. However, before issuance of charter, mayor must receive Indianapolis City Council approval for establishment of said charter school. Specifies that "governing body" as used in education code applies to body administering charter school, "school employer" applies to governing body of charter school, "superintendent" applies to chief administrative officer of charter school, and "certificated employee" refers to person employed as a teacher at a charter school.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Beginning in 2004-05 school year, the makeup of any local school improvement committee is to be determined by IC 20-10.2
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school corporation's discipline policy must allow a student with a chronic disease or medical condition to possess and self-administer medication while the student is on school grounds or off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event if the student's parent files an annual authorization that includes a certification from the student's physician for the student to self-administer the medication.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the sale and distribution of mercury-added novelties after 7/1/2003; limits the circumstances under which a mercury fever thermometer may be sold or supplied to an individual after 7/1/2003; restricts a public or nonpublic school from using or purchasing a mercury commodity, mercury compounds, or mercury-added instructional equipment and materials after 7/1/2003; provides that a person may sell or provide a mercury commodity only if that person meets certain conditions.
Title: H.B. 1901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school principal's performance evaluation may not be based wholly on Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress (ISTEP) scores of students in the principal's school, but the scores may be used as one factor in the evaluation; authorizes a school corporation or other entity to which the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies to release of education records to a juvenile justice agency.
Title: S.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Allows distance learning methods to account for 50% of continuing education requirements for all professions, except doctors, nurses, and dentists; authorizes the executive director of the Indiana professional licensing agency to review appeals of denials of the renewal of certain professional and occupational licenses.
Title: H.B. 1934
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that a child care ministry that receives child care development voucher may only be required by a local Step Ahead Council to meet child care standards; specifies that a local Step Ahead Council may not require child care ministries to meet additional standards unless those additional standards are approved by the General Assembly or the Division of Family and Children; requires applicant for certain child care license to meet certain standards.
Title: S.B. 110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Sets forth provisions that a school's strategic and continuous school improvement and achievement plan may include to encourage parental involvement in the school; requires models of parental involvement plans be available to schools for use in developing plans; requires a parent to enter into a written compact with the child's school setting forth expectations for the child, the parent, the child's teachers and school; provides for civil actions against a parent.
Title: S.B. 505
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Defines that sexual misconduct with a minor as a Class A felony as a crime of violence; provides that a person employed in a state agency who works with or around children shall be dismissed if the person has a conviction for sexual misconduct with a minor; expands the definition of child care worker to include a teacher for purposes of the sexual misconduct with a minor statute.
Title: H.B. 1942
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Amends the crime of intimidation to make it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to communicate a threat to another person with the intent of causing a structure or vehicle to be evacuated; raises the offense to a Class C felony if the person draws a deadly weapon; requires school employees who have received such threats to make a report.
Title: S.B. 33
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires a person that transports children in the care of a preschool operated by a school corporation, a public elementary school, or a public secondary school to transport the children in a school bus or, in certain circumstances permitted under Indiana law, a special purpose bus; provides that person who violates certain provisions regarding the transportation of school children commits a Class B infraction.
Title: S.B. 501
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the additional annuity savings account contributions that may be made by a Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) member or a Teacher's Retirement Fund (TRF) member may not exceed 10% of the member's compensation; provides that a governing body of a unit that is participating in PERF is not required to request a survey of the estimated cost of participation, and the PERF board is not required to provide an estimate of the costs of participation.
Title: S.B. 107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Creates new section effective July 1, 2002 establishing Transition to Teaching Program to assist individuals who do not have teaching certification make mid-career switch into teaching field and earn teaching license. Requires every accredited teacher training school and department to create course of study for program partipants, and which must include specified components regarding coursework, classroom experience and participant prerequisites. Establishes criteria for granting of initial standard license to program participant. Specifies that district may hire program participant to teach only in the subject area in which participant meets qualifications. Specifies that after obtaining initial standard license, program participant wishing to renew initial standard license must meet same requirements as other candidates for license renewal. Requires accredited teacher training schools and departments to report annually to state board on number of persons who enroll in and complete the program.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to criminal history checks; specifies that a state or governmental entity may obtain the release of limited criminal history for an applicant for employment with the entity; specifies that a school corporation or special education cooperative may obtain without charge the limited criminal history of a prospective employee from a law enforcement agency; specifies a special education cooperative may obtain without charge the limited criminal history of an adult volunteer.
Title: S.B. 445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
In section allowing local board flexibility, deletes language stating the section does not apply to collective bargaining. Deletes language stating that exclusive representative of certified district employees may bargain collectively only on matters pertaining to salary, wages and salary and wage-related fringe benefits. Deletes language that exclusive representative may not bargain collectively or discuss performance awards. Adds that beginning July 1, 2001, provision requiring any items included in the 1972-73 agreements between district and employee organization to continue to be bargainable does not apply to district.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Continues the division of fees collected from the education license plates as follows: 25% to the School Intervention and Career Counseling Development Fund, 75% to local education foundations.
Title: H.B. 2126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to conflict resolution in school curriculum; requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to school corporations models of conflict resolution instruction, which may consist of a program of teacher training with application of the techniques to the children in the classroom, by a specified date.
Title: H.B. 1971
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Specifies that parents as teachers programs are included among the parent information programs eligible to receive Step Ahead early childhood grant funds.
Title: H.B. 1417
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides a cost of living adjustment (COLA) in 2001 to members of the Public Employees Retirement Fund (PERF) and members of the Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund (TRF) who retired or were disabled before 7/2/99; provides a COLA in 2002 to members of PERF or TRF who retired or were disabled before 7/2/00; provides a supplemental 13th check benefit to retired teachers and certain retired public employees on 11/1/01, and on 11/1/02; provides additional COLA.
Title: H.B. 1815
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Makes various changes concerning school accounting and school business officers; removes provisions requiring certain money to be deposited in the school technology fund.
Title: S.B. 454
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the display of the Ten Commandments on real property owned by the state or a political subdivision as part of an exihibit displaying other documents of historical significance that formed and influenced the United States legal or governmental system.
Title: H.B. 1180
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the mailing, instead of publishing, of the school corporation performance report; provides that a child must be at least five years of age on July 1 of the 2000-2001 school year or any subsequent school year to officially enroll in a kindergarten program offered by a school corporation; provides that an assessment for early entry must consist of more than an intelligence test; states that $ 25 is the maximum fee a parent must pay to obtain a waiver for early entry.
Title: S.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 03/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Expands the definition of education facility projects for purposes of the Indiana Development Finance Authority (IDFA) law to permit the authority to provide funding to certain nonprofit corporations for real property and improvements, personal property, and noncapital costs to fund a judgement, settlement, or other cost or liability; provides for bonding authority to the state office building commission for a judicial legislative building.
Title: S.B. 408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Provides that a resident who is serving in the armed forces of the United States, stationed outside the state and otherwise qualified to receive a higher education award, may receive and use a higher education award or freedom of choice grant at an educational institution that is located outside the state; limits the total amount that may be awarded to students who meet these requirements during the 2001-2002 fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 1278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to education; defines the Save Indiana Program; makes conforming changes; extends the expiration date of a noncode provision that requires the Treasurer of State, Board for Depositories, Commission for Higher Education, and State Student Assistance Commission to provide certain administrative and financial support to the Indiana Education Savings Authority.
Title: S.B. 373
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Allows Ivy Tech state college to promote economic development by providing certain assessment and training services through 2005; prohibits the community college policy committee from considering this act in developing the community college system; prohibits Ivy Tech from using the act in negotiating or developing any aspect of the community college system.
Title: S.B. 278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that an individual seeking licensure as an elementary teacher must demonstrate proficiency in comprehensive reading instruction skills, including phonemic awareness and phonic instruction, through a written examination or other procedures prescribed by the professional standards board.
Title: S.B. 352
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Repeals the requirement for school corporations to change to a July-June budget year; repeals the July-June budget year pilot project; changes the date back to September 20 for public hearings on proposed plans for school bus replacement and capital projects.
Title: S.B. 508
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the State School Bus Committee to adopt and enforce rules requiring each school bus to bear the name of the school district on the top of the school bus and number of the school district on the back of the school bus in black letters that are 4 to 6 inches high.
Title: H.B. 1267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes a method for determining the amount of money saved by a school corporation as the result of universal service discounts under the federal Telecommunications Act of 1966; delays the deadline for the initial filing of school corporation reports concerning technology expenditures; delays the deadline for the initial compilation of the school corporation reports.
Title: S.B. 393
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |