| IN | SB0249 | Intro
25% | Teacher compensation. Amends provisions that allow school corporations to provide a supplemental payment to teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. Makes corresponding changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0403 | Intro
25% | Charter school requirements. Provides that: (1) access to financial data for local schools requirements apply to charter schools; and (2) at least one member of the governing board of a charter school must be appointed by the fiscal body of the count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0531 | Intro
25% | Ban on corporal punishment in schools. Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on certain students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0523 | Intro
25% | School chaplains. Allows a principal or superintendent of a public school, including a charter school, to employ, or approve as a volunteer, a school chaplain if certain requirements are met. Allows a school chaplain to provide: (1) secular advice, g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0501 | Intro
25% | Discussable items for teachers. Requires a school employer to discuss certain items with the exclusive representative of certificated employees. Provides that the obligation to discuss does not require either party to enter into a contract, agree to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0500 | Intro
25% | Cardiac arrest action plans. Requires a school corporation, charter school, and nonpublic school with at least one employee to develop a venue specific emergency action plan for sudden cardiac arrest, in consultation with an emergency medical service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0496 | Intro
25% | School based health centers. Requires the department of education, in consultation with the Indiana department of health, to establish a program to provide technical assistance to public schools, including charter schools, that are interested in esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0335 | Intro
25% | Teacher retention grant program. Creates the teacher retention grant (grant). Provides that certain schools qualify for a grant if one or more licensed teachers employed by the school or directly providing virtual education were rated as effective or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0396 | Intro
25% | Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0257 | Intro
25% | Civics education. Requires certain instruction or discussion to: (1) incorporate the universal principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States; and (2) foster a national identity, heritage,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0336 | Intro
25% | Property tax revenue shared with charter schools. Removes and repeals provisions that require school corporations located in certain counties to share operations fund property tax levy, operating referendum tax levy, and school safety referendum tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0442 | Intro
25% | Instruction concerning human sexuality. Defines "governing authority" of a school. Defines "school" as a school maintained by a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school. Provides that, if a school provides any instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0448 | Intro
25% | Higher education and workforce development matters. Requires the Indiana management performance hub to annually report certain credential information on its website. Requires the secretary of education to establish a plan to develop a market driven s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0110 | Intro
25% | School based health centers. Requires the department of education, in consultation with the Indiana department of health, to establish a program to provide technical assistance to public schools, including charter schools, that are interested in esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0365 | Intro
25% | Education matters. Requires the department of education (department), in collaboration with the management performance hub (hub) and the commission for higher education (commission), to collect, maintain, and aggregate certain data regarding career a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0481 | Intro
25% | Real world and finance curriculum grant funds. Establishes the real world readiness grant program (program) to provide grants to eligible schools to better prepare students for life after graduation with or without the assistance of a partnering orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0483 | Intro
25% | Regulation of homeschooling. Requires a parent who withdraws the parent's chronically absent child from a public school in order to homeschool the child to: (1) present to the school from which the child is withdrawing a plan regarding the curriculum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0329 | Intro
25% | Water safety curricula and drowning reporting. Requires the Indiana department of health to collect and publish certain information concerning drowning deaths in Indiana. Requires the department of education to develop curricula regarding water safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0320 | Intro
25% | Choice scholarships. Specifies certain conditions applying to the state board of accounts audit of a choice scholarship school. Requires a school that enrolls choice scholarship students to hold at least one public meeting each semester concerning th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0343 | Intro
25% | State educational institutions. Makes certain changes to state educational institution (institution) policies that involve: (1) disciplinary actions; (2) tenure review or promotion; and (3) student reports. Removes a prohibition on the award of admis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0319 | Intro
25% | Chronic absenteeism. Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) study and make recommendations concerning the categorization of student absences; (2) create a list of best practices to reduce student discipline related to student absen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0366 | Intro
25% | Education matters. Exempts public schools and charter schools from certain prekindergarten child care program requirements. Provides that the department of education, in cooperation with the office of family and social services, shall have oversight ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0348 | Intro
25% | Waiving requirements for accredited schools. Requires (instead of allows) the state board of education (state board) to approve an application to waive compliance with certain provisions requested by a school or group of schools under the performance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0279 | Intro
25% | Educator training and licensure. Establishes the paraprofessional to teacher licensure pipeline program (program) to provide grants to eligible schools for allowable expenses and to support teacher candidates interested in obtaining an initial practi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0363 | Intro
25% | Victims of bullying. Amends the definition of "eligible student" for purposes of eligibility under the Indiana education scholarship account program. Requires a school to provide certain victims of bullying with the option to finish the semester by m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0230 | Intro
25% | Mandatory bargaining on school safety matters. Requires a school employer to collectively bargain with the exclusive representative of certificated employees programs and matters related to school safety and associated working conditions. Requires a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0189 | Intro
25% | School buildings. Provides that the governing body of the School City of Hammond school corporation is exempt from compliance with certain requirements concerning the Gavit High School building.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0224 | Intro
25% | Participation in community eligibility provision. Requires the department of education to provide technical assistance to a school corporation that is eligible to participate in and elects to participate in the federal community eligibility provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0016 | Intro
25% | Expulsion and suspension. Provides that a student may be suspended or expelled only upon: (1) a determination that the student's suspension or expulsion will prevent or substantially reduce the risk of interference with an educational function or sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0034 | Intro
25% | Literacy endorsement. Provides that the department of education may not renew a practitioner license or an accomplished practitioner license issued to an individual unless the individual receives a literacy endorsement by completing 40 (instead of 80...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0035 | Intro
25% | School curriculum. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and state accredited nonpublic elementary school to include print handwriting, cursive handwriting, and spelling in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0036 | Intro
25% | School counselors. Provides that, for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school years, a school shall ensure that at least 60% of a school counselor's aggregate time performing the counselor's job duties is devoted to providing direct services to students. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0167 | Intro
25% | Seizure training requirements. Provides that school corporations and charter schools shall require all applicants for employment and school employees who will have direct, ongoing contact with children within the scope of the applicant's or school em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0168 | Intro
25% | Resident tuition rate. Provides that an individual who meets certain conditions is eligible for the resident tuition rate as determined by the state educational institution. Requires such an individual to verify that the individual meets the criteria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0067 | Intro
25% | Secured school safety grants. Allows school corporations, charter schools, and accredited nonpublic schools to apply for a matching grant from the secured school fund to be used to provide funding for school employees to receive youth violence early ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0229 | Intro
25% | School safety and working conditions discussions. Requires a school employer to discuss certain items with the exclusive representative of certificated employees. Provides that the obligation to discuss does not require either party to enter into a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
