Indiana House Bill 1238 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-13 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

RITE program grants. Provides that the education roundtable, with approval by the state board of education, shall develop the rewarding innovation, technology, and excellence (RITE) program to award grants to school corporations whose schools have exhibited improvement toward benchmarks developed by the state board of education. Provides that a school corporation that applies for a grant under the RITE program must demonstrate how the school corporation's: (1) innovation; (2) use of technology; or (3) other efforts to achieve excellence; have led to improvement in meeting the benchmarks. Specifies that grants under the RITE program must be made from the state

RITE program grants. Provides that the education roundtable, with approval by the state board of education, shall develop the rewarding innovation, technology, and excellence (RITE) program to award grants to school corporations whose schools have exhibited improvement toward benchmarks developed by the state board of education. Provides that a school corporation that applies for a grant under the RITE program must demonstrate how the school corporation's: (1) innovation; (2) use of technology; or (3) other efforts to achieve excellence; have led to improvement in meeting the benchmarks. Specifies that grants under the RITE program must be made from the state

Rep. Philip GiaQuinta [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-13	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Education
2015-01-13	House	Authored by Representative GiaQuinta

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/house/1238/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/7/d/5/27d5a307/HB1238.01.INTR.pdf