Bill Text: IN HB1208 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: School corporation dress codes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-10 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1208 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1208-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-33-8-12.
Synopsis: School corporation dress codes. Requires each school
corporation to establish a dress code.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 10, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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(1) Establish written discipline rules:
(A) which must include:
(i) a graduated system of discipline; and
(B) which
for the school corporation.
(2) Give general publicity to the discipline rules within a school where the discipline rules apply by actions such as:
(A) making a copy of the discipline rules available to students and students' parents; or
(B) delivering a copy of the discipline rules to students or the
parents of students.
This publicity requirement may not be construed technically and
is satisfied if the school corporation makes a good faith effort to
disseminate to students or parents generally the text or substance
of a discipline rule.
(b) The:
(1) superintendent of a school corporation; and
(2) principals of each school in a school corporation;
may adopt regulations establishing lines of responsibility and related
guidelines in compliance with the discipline policies of the governing
body.
(c) The governing body of a school corporation may delegate:
(1) rulemaking;
(2) disciplinary; and
(3) other authority;
as reasonably necessary to carry out the school purposes of the school
corporation.
(d) Subsection (a) does not apply to rules or directions concerning
the following:
(1) Movement of students.
(2) Movement or parking of vehicles.
(3) Day to day instructions concerning the operation of a
classroom or teaching station.
(4) Time for commencement of school.
(5) Other standards or regulations relating to the manner in which
an educational function must be administered.
However, this subsection does not prohibit the governing body from
regulating the areas listed in this subsection.