Citations Affected: IC 20-30-2.
Synopsis: Student instructional time. Provides that a school year
consists of at least 920 hours for grades 1 through 6, and 1,100 hours
for grades 7 through 12. Amends the formula for determining a
reduction in tuition support for a school corporation that does not
conduct the minimum number of hours and a provision concerning the
waiver from the reduction.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
the August tuition support distribution to that school corporation for a
school year by an amount determined as follows:
STEP ONE: Determine the remainder of:
(A) the amount of the total tuition support allocated to the
school corporation for the particular school year; minus
(B) that part of the total tuition support allocated to the school
corporation for that school year with respect to student
instructional days one hundred seventy-six (176) through one
hundred eighty (180). hours:
(i) eight hundred eighty (880) through nine hundred
twenty (920), for grades 1 through 6; and
(ii) one thousand fifty-six (1,056) through one thousand
one hundred (1,100), for grades 7 through 12.
STEP TWO: Subtract the number of student instructional days
hours in grades 1 through 6 and grades 7 through 12 that the
school corporation conducted from: one hundred eighty (180).
(A) nine hundred twenty (920), for grades 1 through 6; and
(B) one thousand one hundred (1,100), for grades 7
through 12.
STEP THREE: Determine the lesser of: five (5)
(A) thirty-five (35), for grades 1 through 6, or forty-two
(42), for grades 7 through 12; or
(B) the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
STEP FOUR: Divide the amount subtracted under STEP ONE(B)
by: five (5).
(A) thirty-five (35), for grades 1 through 6; or
(B) forty-two (42), for grades 7 through 12.
STEP FIVE: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP FOUR
by the number determined under STEP THREE.
STEP SIX: Subtract the number determined under STEP THREE
from the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
STEP SEVEN: Divide the remainder determined under STEP
ONE by: one hundred seventy-five (175).
(A) eight hundred eighty (880), for grades 1 through 6; and
(B) one thousand fifty-six (1,056), for grades 7 through 12.
STEP EIGHT: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP
SEVEN by the remainder determined under STEP SIX.
STEP NINE: Add the product determined under STEP FIVE to
the product determined under STEP EIGHT.
imposed under section 4 of this chapter for a particular number of
canceled student instructional days hours if:
(1) the school corporation applies to the department for a waiver
of the penalty imposed under section 4 of this chapter for a
specific number of canceled student instructional days; hours;
and
(2) each of the particular number of student instructional days
hours requested to be waived under this section was canceled due
to extraordinary circumstances.