Title 20, EDUCATION

Sec. 2. The trustee or trustees of Indiana may perform duties in maintaining the joint school as are otherwise provided by law for maintaining the public schools in Indiana. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-4-56-1.] As added by P.L.1-2005, …

Sec. 3. In carrying out this chapter, the school corporation shall pay the proportion of the cost of purchasing school grounds, repairing or erecting new building or buildings, and in maintaining the joint school, as the school trustees of the two (2) adjacent school corporations…

Sec. 1. (a) This section does not apply to an existing public elementary or secondary school that the governing body of the school corporation in which the school is located has scheduled for closure. (b) An existing public elementary or secondary school may be converted into a c…

Sec. 5. (a) An existing public elementary or secondary school may be converted into a charter school if the governing body of the school corporation: (1) votes to convert the school within the school corporation; and (2) submits to an authorizer a proposal described in IC 20-24-3…

Sec. 1. The board shall establish annual student performance improvement levels for each school that are not less rigorous than the student performance improvement levels under IC 20-31-1, IC 20-31-8, and IC 20-31-10, including the following: (1) For students: (A) improvement in …

Sec. 0.2. The amendments made to IC 20-8.1-6.1-9 (before its repeal, now codified at section 14 of this chapter) by P.L.260-1997 apply only to school years beginning after June 30, 1996. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.330.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter with respect to legal settlement, transfers, and the payment of tuition, the words "residence", "resides", or other comparable language means a permanent and principal habitation that an individual uses for a home for a fixed or indefinite period, …

Sec. 10. A foreign student visiting in Indiana under any student exchange program approved by the state board is considered a resident student with legal settlement in the school corporation where the foreign exchange student resides. The student may attend a school in the school…

Sec. 11. (a) A school corporation may enter into an agreement with: (1) a nonprofit corporation that operates a federally approved education program; or (2) a nonprofit corporation that: (A) is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Co…

Sec. 11.5. (a) The following definitions apply to this section: (1) "ADM" means average daily membership (as defined in IC 20-18-2-2). (2) "Facility" means a secure private facility described in IC 31-9-2.1-223(a)(1). (3) "School corporation" means the Indiana school or charter s…

Sec. 12. (a) If a student is transferred from a school corporation in Indiana to a public school corporation in another state, the transferor corporation shall pay the transferee corporation the full tuition fee charged by the transferee corporation. However, the amount of the fu…

Sec. 13. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Class of school" refers to a classification of each school or program in the transferee corporation by the grades or special programs taught at the school. Generally, these classifications…

Sec. 14. (a) Not later than March 1, a school corporation shall estimate the: (1) transfer tuition payments that the school corporation is required to pay for students transferring from the school corporation; and (2) transfer tuition payments that the school corporation is entit…

Sec. 15. (a) The state board shall hear the following: (1) All appeals provided in this chapter. (2) All disputes on the following: (A) Legal settlement. (B) Right to transfer. (C) Right to attend school in any school corporation. (D) Amount of transfer tuition. (E) Any other mat…

Sec. 16. (a) The provisions to implement this chapter, including: (1) the calculation of transfer tuition; (2) the credits for state distribution; and (3) the time in the year when requests for transfer must be filed; shall be implemented by rules adopted by the state board. (b) …

Sec. 17. (a) Each year before the date specified in the rules adopted by the state board, a school corporation shall report the information specified in subsection (b) for each student: (1) for whom tuition support is paid by another school corporation; (2) for whom tuition suppo…

Sec. 18. (a) If a student: (1) has legal settlement in the attendance area of a school corporation in another state, when legal settlement is determined without regard to the appointment of a guardian in Indiana solely to facilitate the placement of the student in a facility desc…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the legal settlement of a student is governed by the following provisions: (1) If the student: (A) is less than eighteen (18) years of age; or (B) is at least eighteen (18) years of age but is not emancipated; the legal settlement…

Sec. 2.5. (a) In the case of a student described in section 2(a)(3) of this chapter, the: (1) parent granted physical custody by a court; or (2) student, if the student is at least eighteen (18) years of age; may elect for the student to have legal settlement in the school corpor…

Sec. 3. The secretary of education shall prepare the form of agreement to be used under section 2(a)(2) of this chapter and a form to be executed by any individual with whom the student is living under section 2(a)(2), 2(a)(3), 2(a)(4), or 2(a)(6) of this chapter. The execution o…

Sec. 30. (a) This section applies to a student who resided in a school corporation where the student had legal settlement for at least two (2) consecutive school years immediately before moving to an adjacent school corporation. (b) A school corporation in which a student had leg…

Sec. 31. (a) This section applies to a school corporation and to a charter school that enrolls a student who has legal settlement in another school corporation for the purpose of the student receiving services from a state accredited nonpublic alternative high school described in…

Sec. 32. (a) This section does not apply to a school corporation if the governing body has adopted a policy of not accepting the transfer of any student who does not have legal settlement within the school corporation. (b) The governing body of a school corporation shall annually…

programs Sec. 33. (a) Notwithstanding a policy adopted under section 32(a) of this chapter, a school corporation may accept a student who does not have legal settlement in the school corporation into an alternative education program (as defined in IC 20-30-8-1). (b) A school corp…

Sec. 4. A student is emancipated when the student: (1) furnishes the student's support from the student's own resources; (2) is not dependent in any material way on the student's parents for support; (3) files or is required by applicable law to file a separate tax return; and (4…

Sec. 5. The parents of any student, regardless of the student's age, or the student after the student has become eighteen (18) years of age may request a transfer from a school corporation in which the student has a legal settlement to a transferee school corporation in Indiana. …

Sec. 6. A school corporation may accept a transferring student without approval of the transferor corporation. A transferee corporation may not require a parent or student requesting transfer to the school corporation to pay transfer tuition or any other fee associated with the t…

Sec. 6.5. (a) Notwithstanding this chapter, a school corporation shall accept a transferring student who does not have legal settlement in the school corporation if: (1) the student's parent is a current employee of the transferee school corporation with an annual salary of at le…

Sec. 6.7. (a) This section: (1) applies to a school corporation that does not have a policy of accepting transfer students having legal settlement outside the attendance area of the transferee school corporation; and (2) does not apply to a school corporation that has more than o…

Sec. 7. (a) A school corporation may transfer a student with a physical, emotional, or mental disability to a transferee corporation that maintains special programs or facilities for children with the disability of the transferred student. (b) A transferee corporation may refuse …

Sec. 8. (a) A student who is placed in a state licensed private or public health care facility or child care facility: (1) by or with the consent of the department of child services; (2) by a court order; or (3) by a child placing agency licensed by the department of child servic…

Sec. 9. (a) This section applies to each student: (1) described in section 8(a) of this chapter; (2) who is placed in a home or facility in Indiana that is outside the school corporation where the student has legal settlement; and (3) for which the state is not obligated to pay t…

Sec. 1. (a) If a student who attends: (1) a nonpublic school located in a school corporation; or (2) a charter school located in a rural school corporation; resides on or along the highway constituting the regular route of a public school bus, the governing body of the school cor…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a student who resides on state owned property and attends a public school away from the student's residence shall be furnished transportation in a public school bus to and from the student's residence and the public school the stu…

Sec. 3. (a) If a school corporation does not maintain or operate a high school and a high school student who resides in the school corporation is transferred to attend a high school in a contiguous school corporation, the governing bodies of the school corporations may enter into…

Sec. 4. The governing body of a school corporation that transfers a student to another school corporation may contract with the receiving corporation for the provision of transportation costs for the transferred student. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies after June 30, 2013. As added by P.L.109-2012, SEC.16.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "center" refers to the center for deaf and hard of hearing education established under section 3 of this chapter. As added by P.L.109-2012, SEC.16.

Sec. 2.2. As used in this chapter, "educational evaluation" means procedures used to provide information about a student's disability or suspected disability for the student's case conference committee to determine the following: (1) Whether a student is eligible for special educ…

Sec. 2.3. As used in this chapter, "family navigator" means a person who meets the following: (1) Is credentialed by the office of the secretary of family and social services, with a background in the any of the following fields: (A) Audiology. (B) Deaf education. (C) Early child…

Sec. 2.4. As used in this chapter, "full continuum of communication options" means any method of communication used by a child who is deaf or hard of hearing and the child's parent. The term may include any of the following: (1) American sign language. (2) Cued speech. (3) Listen…

Sec. 2.5. As used in this chapter, "observe and follow" means observing progress and following the movement of children identified as deaf and hard of hearing by the following: (1) The Indiana department of health, including the early hearing detection and intervention program. (…

Sec. 3. (a) The center for deaf and hard of hearing education is established. (b) The purpose of this article is to support parental choice, including the full continuum of communication options (including American sign language, other forms of sign language, cued speech, listeni…

Sec. 4. (a) The center shall carry out the following duties in an unbiased manner to ensure that children who are deaf and children who are hard of hearing acquire optimal language skills and academic abilities, regardless of the mode of communication used: (1) Observe and follow…

Sec. 5. (a) The center may provide the services set forth in section 4 of this chapter directly or through contract or agreement with other entities. (b) The center may collect an intergovernmental fee from other state agencies, school corporations, or local units only for servic…

Sec. 6. (a) The purpose of a family navigator is to provide the following: (1) Unbiased and comprehensive information to assist families in navigating all available statewide resources that support children from birth through three (3) years of age who are deaf and hard of hearin…