Title 20, EDUCATION

Sec. 13. (a) The proficiency of students under a statewide summative assessment must be reported to the state board not later than: (1) for the 2025-2026 school year, September 1, 2026; and (2) for each school year beginning after June 30, 2026, July 1 of the year in which the st…

Sec. 14. (a) After a school receives statewide summative assessment score reports, a teacher who currently teaches a student shall discuss with a parent of the student the student's statewide summative assessment results at the next parent/teacher conference if the parent partici…

Sec. 14.5. For a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2023, with a vendor to conduct the statewide summative assessment, the department shall include in the contract a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide summative assessment results t…

provision of results Sec. 15. (a) Each school corporation shall compile the total results of the statewide summative assessments in a manner that will permit evaluation of learning progress within the school corporation. The school corporation shall make the compilation of test r…

Sec. 16. (a) The department shall develop a format for the publication by school corporations in an annual performance report required by statute of appropriate academic information required by the department, including statewide assessment scores and information required to be d…

Sec. 17. (a) The state board shall approve two (2) or more benchmark, formative, interim, or similar assessments to identify students that require remediation and provide individualized instruction in which a school corporation, charter school, state accredited nonpublic school, …

Sec. 18. (a) The department, with the approval of the state board, shall develop and implement programs, policies, and procedures necessary to carry out this chapter to: (1) continuously improve teacher, student, parent, and community understanding of assessment results; (2) stra…

Sec. 18.4. Notwithstanding any other law, a student's score on the statewide summative assessment may not be the primary factor or measure used to determine whether a student is eligible for a particular course or program. As added by P.L.82-2020, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.150-2024, …

Sec. 18.5. (a) The department shall, to the extent permitted under federal law, provide the same text-to-speech, screen reader, or human reader and calculator accommodations to a student in grades 6 through 12 on every section of the statewide summative assessment program if that…

Sec. 19. The state board shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement this chapter. As added by P.L.242-2017, SEC.41.

Sec. 2. The purpose of the Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) program developed under this chapter is to establish an assessment system that is student centered and provides meaningful and timely information to all stakeholders on both a student's…

Sec. 20. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the department shall develop a method for identifying students in grade 4 through grade 8 who: (1) did not pass the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board; and (2) are at risk of not being proficient…

Sec. 3. The Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) program consists of: (1) the statewide assessment program described in section 7 of this chapter; (2) optional benchmark assessments described in section 17 of this chapter; (3) requirements to integr…

Sec. 4. To carry out the purposes described in section 2 of this chapter: (1) assessment reporting for assessments developed under this chapter must be: (A) reliable; (B) accurate; (C) user friendly; and (D) timely; (2) the statewide assessment program must help students understa…

Sec. 5. (a) An assessment developed under this chapter must be aligned to Indiana's college and career readiness educational standards under IC 20-19-2-14.5. (b) All assessments approved by the state board under this chapter must comply with each of the following requirements: (1…

Sec. 6. (a) The state board shall: (1) authorize and oversee the department's development and implementation of the Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) program, including: (A) establishment of criteria for requests for proposals for statewide asses…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and in the manner provided in section 6 of this chapter, the state board is responsible for determining the appropriate subjects, grades, and format of the statewide assessment program. (b) For each school year beginning af…

Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the statewide summative assessment must be administered in a single testing window that must take place at the end of a school year on dates determined by the state board. (b) If an end of course assessment is administere…

Sec. 9. The state board shall develop a United States government course final exam that schools may administer at the completion of a United States government course. The exam must include the structure of state and federal governments, including the role of separation of powers,…