Bills to be heard February 6 in the Senate Education and Career Development Committee

Senate Education and Career Development Committee
February 6, 1:30 p.m.
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SB 29        • Sen. Bohacek, Sen. Raatz - School materials for juvenile detainees. Requires the school corporation, upon the facility's request, to deliver the school materials at least once every seven calendar days of a child that is locate in a juvenile detention facility within the school district. Provides that, except for the assessment of rental fees for curricular materials, the school corporation is responsible for the costs associated with preparing and delivering the school materials. 
Amend and vote only.
 
SB 55        • Sen. Freeman - State tuition support. Establishes a spring count date (in addition to a fall count date) to determine a school corporation's average daily membership (ADM). (Current law establishes a spring count date for ADM that is for informational purposes only.) Provides that the spring count date will be used (in addition to the fall count date) to determine pupil enrollment for purposes of the career and technical grant.
Testimony only.
 
SB 93        • Sen. Ruckelshaus, Sen. Spartz, Sen. J.D. Ford - Let Indiana Work for You program. Requires the commission for higher education (commission) to establish, in coordination with the department of workforce development (department) and the Indiana economic development corporation, the Let Indiana Work for You program (program). The Let Indiana Work for You is an effort to keep college graduates to stay in state after they graduate instead of leaving the state for work.
Testimony only.
 
SB 266        • Sen. Crider, Sen. Head  -  School security grants and advances.  Establishes mental health services and related personnel as legitimate uses of secured school grant money. No longer a matching grant, just a grant. Before a school district would have to match the funds.
Amend and vote only.
 
SB 282        • Sen Houchin, Sen. Raatz - Value added growth and projection analytics. Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) adopt a value added growth and projection analytics system; and (2) incorporate the system into the department's reporting requirements under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
Testimony only.
 
SB 507        • Sen. Raatz - Education matters. (aka Less Local Control) 1. Requires the state board of education (state board) to: (a) adopt an early warning system that provides actionable data on students as early as elementary school; and (b) adopt and provide to schools a graduation pathways tracking and reporting system that provides actionable data on students. 2. Provides that teacher evaluations must be conducted by a certified evaluator. Establishes requirements for a teacher evaluation model. Requires the state board, working in conjunction with the commission, to analyze the data annually and publish findings and recommendations to inform the teacher preparation programs in Indiana. Allows the state board to establish criteria for renewal and initial teacher preparation program approvals based on the state board's findings.
Testimony only.
 
SB 567        • Sen. Raatz - Virtual education. Provides that the SBOE may adopt rules regarding virtual education programs of school corporations ranging from establishing methods of onboarding kids and parents to establishing 90% of tuition support funding of students who receive at least 15% of instruction in a virtual environment (Public school “revenue” is estimated to decrease by $2.9 million due to this). Requires a school corporation that issued a charter before July 1, 2015, to register with the state board for charter authority. Limits the amount an authorizer can charge to 1.25%. Ball State will lose 550k, for example. Forces a corporation if it reaches a certain limit of kids receiving at least 50% of education virtually to establish a separate virtual school.
Testimony only.
 
SB 606            • Sen. Raatz, Sen. Kruse - Teacher salaries. Removes a provision that provides that a combination of certain factors may account for not more than 33.33% of the calculation used to determine an increase or increment in teacher salaries.
Amend and vote only.
 
SB 607        • Sen. Raatz, Sen. Zay – Workforce diploma reimbursement program. Provide payments to eligible program providers to provide adult education via a workability skill or a high school diploma. Cost $2.5 million
Amend and vote only.
 
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