| IN | SB0282 | Engross | Value added growth and projection analytics. Provides that the department of education (department) may: (1) adopt a value added growth and projection analytics system; and (2) incorporate the system into the department's reporting requirements under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
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| IN | SB0266 | Engross | School mental health, safety, privacy, and other education matters. Adds additional purposes for which advances made under the school corporation and charter school safety advance program may be used. Amends the purposes of the Indiana safe schools f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
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| IN | SB0547 | Engross | Study of education matters. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topics of: (1) improving science education; (2) improving mathematics, geography, and personal finance education in kindergarten through grade 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| IN | SB0508 | Engross | School employee training requirements. Requires the interim study committee on education to review teacher training requirements once every five years. Repeals and relocates school training provisions concerning the following: (1) Training concerning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
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| IN | SB0434 | Engross | Review of category or designation of school performance and alternate diplomas. Requires the state board of education (state board) to develop alternative benchmarks, performance indicators, and accountability standards to be used in the assessment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
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| IN | SB0507 | Engross | Education matters. Provides that the state board of education (state board) may adopt and provide to schools: (1) an early warning system that provides actionable data on students as early as elementary school; and (2) a graduation pathways tracking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
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| IN | SB0093 | Engross | Let Indiana Work for You program. Requires the commission for higher education (commission) to establish, in coordination with the department of workforce development (department) and the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation), the Le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
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| IN | SB0158 | Engross | Indiana youth service program. Provides that Ivy Tech Community College (Ivy Tech) shall develop a proposal to establish the Indiana youth service program (program) to provide high school graduates with the opportunity to learn various skills and par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
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| IN | HB1564 | Intro | School bus route safety. Provides that the governing body of a public school may not authorize a school bus driver to load or unload a student at a location that requires the student to cross a roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
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| IN | HB1642 | Intro | Next generation Hoosier educators scholarship. Provides that, in awarding a next generation Hoosier educators scholarship, the commission for higher education shall give priority to the following: (1) An eligible applicant who is a member of a househ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
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| IN | HB1636 | Intro | Agricultural education. Provides that after June 30, 2020, a school corporation, charter high school, or accredited nonpublic high school may not be placed in the highest category or designation of school improvement unless the school corporation, ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
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| IN | HB1674 | Intro | Study of school regulations. Urges the legislative council to assign to the education study committee the issue of eliminating, reducing, or streamlining education mandates placed on public schools, including charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
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| IN | HB1678 | Intro | High school accountability. Provides that the performance of a school's students on the statewide assessment program test may not be used in determining a secondary school's performance for purposes of calculating the school's accountability grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
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| IN | HB1675 | Intro | Education savings accounts. Establishes the Indiana education savings account program (program). Provides that a parent of an eligible student or an emancipated eligible student may establish an account in the program. Provides that an eligible stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
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| IN | HB1611 | Intro | Minimum teacher salary. Provides that, for a school year beginning after June 30, 2019, the minimum annual salary for a full-time teacher employed by a school corporation may not be less than $50,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
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| IN | HB1030 | Intro | Resident tuition for eligible individuals. Provides that an individual who meets certain conditions is eligible for the resident tuition rate as determined by the state educational institution. Requires such an individual to verify that the individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
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| IN | HB1610 | Intro | Elimination of textbook fees. Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state reimbursements for costs incurred by public schools to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
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| IN | HB1586 | Intro | Free textbooks. Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state reimbursements for costs incurred by public schools to provide curricular materials to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
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| IN | HB1529 | Intro | Military family matters. Allows for a student to have legal settlement in a school corporation if the student's parent is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Indiana while on active duty. Requires a school corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
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| IN | HB1525 | Intro | Biological sexual identity. Provides that student facilities in public school buildings must be designated for use by female students or male students and may be used only by the students of the biological sex for which the facility is designated. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
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| IN | HB1560 | Intro | Additional teacher salary. Provides that a school corporation may provide an increase or increment in a local salary range for a teacher who possesses a master's degree or doctorate degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
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| IN | HB1537 | Intro | Alternatives to animal dissection. Requires that each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school shall develop a written student choice policy to permit students to be allowed to use nonanimal alternatives instead of dissecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
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| IN | HB1501 | Intro | Housing for students in foster care. Provides that a state educational institution shall establish a program to allow foster youth students of the state educational institution to live in campus housing between academic terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
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| IN | HB1431 | Intro | Career and technical education. Provides that a school corporation that is a member of a joint program of career and technical education (joint program) may add a new career and technical education course to its curriculum without approval from the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
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| IN | HB1442 | Intro | Physical education. Requires each school corporation and charter school to conduct at least 30 minutes of physical education each day for students in kindergarten through grade 5. Specifies that the physical education requirement is in addition to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
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| IN | HB1152 | Intro | Student hunger and homelessness. Establishes the student hunger and homelessness study committee (committee) for the purposes of: (1) studying the prevalence of homelessness, housing insecurity, and food insecurity among students at Indiana colleges ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
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| IN | HB1419 | Intro | Use of lead free fixtures in school buildings. Requires the governing body of a school corporation to ensure that any plumbing product that is: (1) acquired for installation in; (2) installed as part of; or (3) used in repairing or installing; the po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1298 | Intro | National guard tuition supplement program fund. Provides that money in the National Guard tuition supplement program fund may be used to provide annual scholarships for scholarship applicants to attend programs recommended by the adjutant general of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1425 | Intro | School equity grants. Establishes the equity education grants (grant). Provides that a school corporation is eligible to receive a $2,000 grant per school year for each student who is in the lowest performing ethnic or racial subgroup based on the IL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1423 | Intro | Indiana education roundtable. Establishes the Indiana education roundtable (roundtable) to make recommendations relating to education to the: (1) governor; (2) general assembly; (3) state board of education (state board); and (4) state superintendent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1408 | Intro | Mandatory kindergarten. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year if the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1399 | Intro | Additional service credit for teacher mentoring. Provides that certain public school teachers who are members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund are granted additional service credit for serving as a mentor to other teachers under a mento...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
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| IN | HB1213 | Intro | Student journalism. Provides freedom of speech and freedom of press protections for grades 7 through 12 and state educational institution student journalists. Requires each school corporation and charter school to adopt a policy concerning student jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1205 | Intro | Teacher salaries. Removes a provision that provides that a combination of certain factors may account for not more than 33.33% of the calculation used to determine an increase or increment in teacher salaries. Increases the basic tuition support appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1286 | Intro | Pilot program to fund educational attainment. Establishes the parent education assistance pilot program (pilot program). Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services shall administer the pilot program. Specifies the require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1287 | Intro | Seat belts on school buses. Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is placed into operation after June 30, 2020, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1274 | Intro | Teacher licensure. Requires the department of education to grant an initial practitioner license to an individual who: (1) holds at least a bachelor's degree or the equivalent from a postsecondary educational institution; (2) submits fingerprints and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1254 | Intro | Education matters. Provides that the following statutes are repealed and rules are voided: (1) Any statute or rule established to meet the requirements of federal law for the purpose of obtaining federal funds for kindergarten through grade 12 educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1204 | Intro | School start times. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, prohibits public schools and accredited nonpublic schools from doing the following: (1) Beginning a student instructional day before 8 a.m. (2) Beginning a student instructional day for st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
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| IN | HB1162 | Intro | Cursive writing. Requires each school corporation, elementary charter school, and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
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| IN | HB1129 | Intro | Training requirements for armed educators. Provides that, after December 31, 2019, a person must be certified by an association or other entity approved by the school safety board (board) in order to be authorized by a school board to legally possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-07
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| IN | HB1112 | Intro | Vocational education. Establishes the additive manufacturing pilot grant program to: (1) make grants to school corporations to facilitate eligible student instruction in the use of additive manufacturing equipment; and (2) provide eligible students w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-07
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| IN | HB1147 | Intro | Elimination of the state board of education. Eliminates the state board of education (state board). Transfers all powers, duties, agreements, and liabilities of the state board to the department of education. Requires the legislative services agency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-07
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| IN | HB1099 | Intro | School bus inspection and equipment requirements. Provides that the state police department may not condition issuance of a certificate of inspection to a school bus or special purpose bus on removal of equipment installed by the bus's manufacturer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| IN | HB1072 | Intro | Seizure preparedness. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, each school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school with at least one employee shall designate at least one employee at each school operated by the school corporation, charter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
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