| HB1028 | ADULT HIGH SCHOOLS. (DEVON D) Adds a definition of an "adult high school". Repeals a provision that prohibits the establishment of new adult high schools. Provides that an adult high school may only be authorized by the Indiana charter school board. Requires a charter for an adult high school to contain certain requirements. Provides that, with certain exceptions, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2014, an adult high school is not entitled to receive funding from the state unless the general assembly enacts an appropriation for the adult high school. Provides that an adult high school is subject to an alternative accountability system established by the state board. Provides that certain authorizers may collect a 3% administrative fee from the amount appropriated to an adult high school. (Current law provides that an authorizer may collect the administrative fee from the charter school's basic tuition support.) |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Conference Committee Report 1 adopted; Roll Call 449: yeas 46 and nays 2
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| HB1063 | CHARTER SCHOOL COMPACTS. (HUSTON T) Provides that a charter school and a school corporation may enter into a compact under which the: (1) school corporation or charter school agrees to provide goods, facilities, services, or other consideration to the other party to the compact; and (2) charter school authorizes the school corporation to include the charter school's performance assessment results when calculating the school corporation's performance assessment. Provides that a charter school may participate in a special education cooperative. Provides that a special education cooperative may be operated and managed by a board of managers that consists of members as determined by agreement between the parties. Provides that a charter school may enter into an interlocal agreement. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Signed by the Speaker
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| HB1321 | INNOVATION NETWORK SCHOOLS. (BEHNING R) Authorizes Indianapolis public schools to enter into an agreement with a school management team to establish innovation network schools in certain schools. Provides that certain schools may be reconstituted as innovation network schools. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Signed by the Speaker
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| SB205 | CHARTER SCHOOLS. (BANKS J) Requires an authorizer to submit an annual report of certain information to the state board of education (state board), the department of education, and the public. Limits the length of a charter agreement to not more than seven years. Requires the state board to determine, during a turnaround academy's fifth year of operation, whether the turnaround academy will be returned to the operation of the school corporation, become a charter school, or be subject to an additional intervention. Specifies that the length of a contract with a special management team to operate a turnaround academy is 5 years. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/5/2014 - Motion to Concur in House Amendments: prevailed; Roll Call 354: yeas 48 and nays 0
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| SB321 | CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDING. (SCHNEIDER S) Allows a charter school organizer to notify the department that it wants to receive the tuition support distributions for the state fiscal year 2014-2015 for all of the charter schools that the organizer operates. Provides that the state examiner shall establish guidelines and prescribe reporting requirements for organizers that are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. Requires the organizer's authorizer to verify to the department that the charter schools are operated by the organizer. Provides that the department shall distribute the tuition support for the verified charter schools to the organizer. Permits the organizer to distribute the tuition support to each charter school it operates in the amounts determined by the organizer. Requires identification numbers and accounts to be used at the organizer and charter school levels. Prohibits an organizer from using tuition support for expenses incurred outside Indiana that are not directly related to the charter school the organizer operates in Indiana. Provides that a student, and the student's siblings, who attends a charter school may attend a different charter school held by the same organizer in subsequent years. Provides that if the state board adopts a rule to assign a category or designation of school improvement to a school corporation the state board shall also assign a category or designation of school improvement to a charter school organizer. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 adopted; Roll Call 521: yeas 73 and nays 25
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