Title 20, EDUCATION

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "high school" means a high school that is: (1) maintained by a school corporation; (2) a charter school; or (3) a state accredited nonpublic school. As added by P.L.134-2025, SEC.3.

Sec. 4. (a) The department shall implement and administer the comprehensive career navigation and coaching system for Indiana developed by the commission for higher education under IC 21-18-20-5 (before its repeal) that does both of the following: (1) Provides timely, comprehensi…

Sec. 5. (a) The career coaching grant fund is established for the purpose of providing grants to eligible entities to establish or implement comprehensive career navigation and coaching systems as described in section 6 of this chapter. (b) The fund consists of the following: (1)…

Sec. 6. (a) Subject to available funding and subsections (c) and (d), the department may award a career coaching grant from the fund to an eligible entity that meets the requirements under subsection (b). (b) To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an eligible entit…

Sec. 7. The department shall: (1) establish an application form for approval as a career coaching provider; and (2) establish requirements to receive approval as a career coaching provider. As added by P.L.134-2025, SEC.3.

Sec. 8. An eligible entity that receives a grant under this chapter shall do the following: (1) Allow students to explore, experience, and engage with a career coach. (2) Apply information learned about the student through aptitude discerning tools and narrow career choices for s…

Sec. 9. An eligible entity described in section 2(a)(4) or 2(a)(5) of this chapter shall provide a student with information on high demand and high wage employment opportunities that are available within the economic growth region established by the department of workforce develo…

Sec. 1. IC 20-23-8 does not apply to: (1) a school corporation; or (2) the governing body of a school corporation; covered by this chapter. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3-21-1.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "school corporation" means a school corporation that was designated as a distressed political subdivision in 2017 under IC 6-1.1-20.3-6.8(d). [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3-21-2.] As added by P.L.1-2005,…

Sec. 3. The emergency manager appointed by the distressed unit appeal board under IC 6-1.1-20.3 shall act as the governing body of the school corporation and has the powers set forth in IC 6-1.1-20.3-8.5, including the powers and duties of the governing body of the school corpora…

Sec. 1. The charter school facilities assistance program is established. As added by P.L.91-2011, SEC.25.

Sec. 10. The following apply to a loan from the fund to a charter school under this chapter: (1) A loan may not exceed the maximum amount set by the department. (2) The term of the loan may not exceed fifteen (15) years after the date of the loan. (3) A charter school may receive…

Sec. 11. A charter school receiving a loan under this chapter shall repay the loan from: (1) the amount of state tuition support that the charter school is eligible to receive; and (2) to the extent that state tuition support is insufficient to meet the debt service obligations o…

Sec. 12. The department shall withhold the amount of the balance of the loan due in a year on a loan made under this chapter from state tuition support distributions that would otherwise be made in the year to the charter school. To the extent possible, the department shall withh…

Sec. 2. The purpose of the program is to make grants and loans to charter schools for the purpose of: (1) constructing; (2) purchasing; (3) renovating; (4) maintaining; (5) paying first semester costs for new; and (6) reducing common school fund debt for; charter schools. As adde…

Sec. 3. The department shall administer the program. As added by P.L.91-2011, SEC.25.

Sec. 4. (a) The charter school facilities assistance fund is established. The department shall administer the fund. (b) The fund consists of the following: (1) Money appropriated or authorized by the general assembly. (2) The repayment proceeds of loans made to charter schools fr…

Sec. 5. The department may apply to the United States Department of Education for a state charter school facilities incentive program grant authorized under 34 U.S.C. 7221d(b). The department shall use the proceeds of any state charter school facilities incentive program grant aw…

Sec. 6. The department may authorize money in the fund to be used for any of the following purposes: (1) To pay first semester costs for charter schools first opening after June 30, 2011. (2) To repay advances and loans to charter schools made before June 30, 2011. (3) To loan or…

Sec. 7. (a) The department shall establish written procedures for providing grants or loans from the fund to charter schools. The written procedures must include at least the following: (1) An application procedure. (2) A procedure to identify projects that may qualify for a gran…

Sec. 8. In making its determination to approve or disapprove a grant or loan application, the department may consider the following: (1) The soundness of the financial business plans of the applicant charter school. (2) The availability to the charter school of other sources of f…

Sec. 9. The department may make grants or loans under this chapter on a per student basis. As added by P.L.91-2011, SEC.25.

Sec. 1. (a) IC 20-31-1, IC 20-31-2, IC 20-31-8, and IC 20-31-10 apply to the school city. The composition of a local school improvement committee is determined under IC 20-31-1, IC 20-31-2, IC 20-31-8, and IC 20-31-10. (b) The plan developed and implemented by the board under IC …

Sec. 2. (a) Educators in each school are responsible for improving student achievement in the school and may develop the educators' own school plan to achieve improvement that: (1) conforms to the guidelines issued by the board; and (2) has a cost that does not exceed the amount …

Sec. 3. Each school's plan must include the development and maintenance of efforts to increase parental involvement in educational activities. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3.1-9-3.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.9.

Sec. 4. School plans must promote: (1) increased options for; and (2) innovative and successful approaches to; improving student achievement. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3.1-9-4.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.9.

Sec. 5. The initial approved general fund budget (for budgets before January 1, 2019) or the initial approved budget of the education fund (for budgets after December 31, 2018) for each school for a school year must be, as nearly as is reasonable and practicable, proportionate to…

Sec. 6. (a) Each school's educators may: (1) determine the educational resources, goods, and services that are necessary and appropriate for improving student performance in the school; and (2) obtain or purchase the educational resources, goods, and services. (b) Purchases and a…

Sec. 7. Subject to the general guidelines developed by the board and after consulting with the school's teachers, each school's administrators may determine the: (1) sources of; and (2) part of; the school's available budget allocated for noneducational goods and services. [Pre-2…

Sec. 8. (a) If, as a result of a school's efforts to incur less expense than was budgeted in a fiscal year, the school has excess education fund money after the school's expenses for the fiscal year are paid in full, the school retains control of the excess. (b) The school shall …

Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) but notwithstanding any other law, each governing body of a school corporation and each organizer of a charter school shall purchase from a publisher, either individually or through a purchasing cooperative of school corporations, …

Sec. 2. (a) A governing body or an organizer of a charter school may purchase from a publisher any curricular material selected by the proper local officials. The governing body or the organizer of a charter school may not rent the curricular materials to students enrolled in any…

Sec. 23. A school corporation may: (1) borrow money to buy student issued hardware, including laptop computers, that may be necessary for accessing curriculum; and (2) issue notes, maturing serially in not more than four (4) years and payable from its education fund, to secure th…

Sec. 24. (a) Except as provided in section 24.5 of this chapter, the superintendent, after approval from the governing body, shall establish procedures for adoption of curricular materials. (b) Except as provided in section 24.5 of this chapter, the governing body, after reviewin…

Sec. 24.5. (a) This section applies to a public school, including a charter school. (b) As used in this section, "three-cueing model" refers to the three-cueing model of reading that uses meaning drawn from the context, pictures, or syntax as the primary basis for teaching word r…

Sec. 0.3. As used in this chapter, "foster care" has the meaning set forth in IC 31-9-2.1-107. As added by P.L.167-2018, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.145-2026, SEC.120.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "original school corporation" refers to a school corporation in which a homeless student's school of origin is located. As added by P.L.191-2006, SEC.2.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "school of origin" means the school: (1) that a homeless student attended when the student last had a permanent residence; or (2) in which the homeless student was last enrolled. As added by P.L.191-2006, SEC.2.

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "transitional school corporation" refers to a school corporation in which a homeless student temporarily stays. As added by P.L.191-2006, SEC.2.

Sec. 4. (a) If a homeless student temporarily stays in the homeless student's original school corporation but outside the attendance area for the school of origin, the original school corporation shall provide transportation for the homeless student from the place where the homel…

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies to homeless students and students in foster care. (b) A school corporation may use the following types of vehicles in transporting a student to a school of origin: (1) If more than seven (7) students are being transported to schools in the same sc…

Sec. 1. This chapter does not apply to a psychologist who is licensed under IC 25-33. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-1-1.9-1.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.12.

Sec. 2. In order to: (1) practice school psychology; and (2) receive an endorsement as an independent practice school psychologist; a school psychologist must comply with this chapter. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-1-1.9-3.] As added by …

Sec. 3. An individual who applies for an endorsement as an independent practice school psychologist must meet the following requirements: (1) Be licensed as a school psychologist by the department. (2) Be employed by a: (A) developmental center; (B) state hospital; (C) public or …

Sec. 4. (a) A school psychologist who is not employed or excused from employment as described in section 3(2) of this chapter may not provide services on a private basis to an individual unless the school psychologist receives a referral from one (1) of the following: (1) A devel…

Sec. 5. A school psychologist who is endorsed under this chapter may not disclose any information acquired from persons with whom the school psychologist has dealt in a professional capacity, except under the following circumstances: (1) Trials for homicide when the disclosure re…