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Bill Title: Various education issues. Allows grants from the safe schools fund to provide school wide programs to improve school climate and professional development and training in alternatives to suspension and expulsion and evidence based practices that contribute to a positive school environment. Requires the department of education to develop guidelines for use by accredited teacher education institutions in preparing teachers to successfully apply classroom behavioral management strategies, including culturally responsive methods, to provide alternatives to suspension and expulsion. Provides that before a child may be referred to the juvenile justice system for truancy, a plan to improve attendance must be developed

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-22 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1640 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2015-HB1640-Introduced.pdf

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