Citations Affected: IC 20-30.
Synopsis: School start date and calendar. Prohibits public schools
from beginning student instructional days for the school year before the
Tuesday after the first Monday in September (Labor Day) and from
ending after June 10 of the following year, beginning with the
2013-2014 school year. Provides that a governing body may establish
a beginning date before Labor Day or an end date for a school year that
is later than June 10 for year-round schools, schools with balanced
calendars, schools that coordinate calendars with a postsecondary
educational institution, and schools that coordinate calendars with a
large employer in the school corporation following public hearings and
a majority vote of the governing body. Provides that a governing body
may establish an end date for a school year that is later than June 10 for
any school following public hearings and a majority vote of the
governing body. Makes the change effective for collective bargaining
agreements and contracts negotiated after June 30, 2013.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
January 20, 2011, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
January 25, 2011, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
quarters, a school that coordinates the school's calendar with that
of a postsecondary educational institution, and a school that
coordinates the school's calendar with that of a large employer
within the school corporation. Notwithstanding subsection (d), a
governing body may begin a school year before Labor Day or end
a school year after June 10 at a school to which this subsection
applies if:
(1) the governing body gives notice and holds at least two (2)
public hearings at which public testimony must be allowed on
the issue; and
(2) at a third public hearing, a majority of the members of the
governing body vote to establish a beginning date for the
school year that is before Labor Day or an ending date for the
school year that is after June 10, or both.
(f) This subsection applies to a school that is not described in
subsection (e). Notwithstanding subsection (d), a governing body
may end a school year after June 10 at a school to which this
subsection applies if:
(1) the governing body gives notice and holds at least two (2)
public hearings at which public testimony must be allowed on
the issue; and
(2) at a third public hearing, a majority of the members of the
governing body vote to establish an ending date for the school
year that is after June 10.