Title 20, EDUCATION

Sec. 12. (a) This section provides an alternative method for a school corporation to be reorganized as a community school corporation. (b) The following may petition directly to the state board to be reorganized as a community school corporation: (1) A consolidated school corpora…

Sec. 12.5. (a) The governing body of two (2) or more school corporations situated in the same or adjoining counties may: (1) consolidate; or (2) be required to consolidate under section 5.5 of this chapter; their respective school corporations under the conditions prescribed in t…

Sec. 13. If the term "majority" is used in connection with any law providing for the submission to an electorate of the question of the consolidation of two (2) or more school corporations, in all laws enacted before March 13, 1959, concerning school consolidation, and in particu…

Sec. 14. All laws enacted pertaining to the consolidation of school corporations shall be liberally construed to effect the following purposes for which the laws were enacted: (1) Better schools. (2) Ease of administration. (3) Economy of operation. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secon…

Sec. 15. An action to test or question the legality of a consolidated school corporation may only be brought in an action of quo warranto in the name of the state on information filed by the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the principal office of the consolidated scho…

Sec. 16. It is the policy of the state that whenever a community school corporation (as defined in IC 20-23-4-3) seeks to: (1) reorganize into a community school corporation under IC 20-23-4 or IC 20-23-16-1 through IC 20-23-16-5; (2) enter into a territorial annexation under IC …

Sec. 17. (a) If the territory of a third class city is in a part of the territory of a consolidated school corporation, the third class city may lease to the consolidated school corporation a building and the property the building is on that is owned by the city for school purpos…

Sec. 2. The governing body of two (2) or more school corporations, whether: (1) towns; (2) cities; (3) townships; (4) joint schools; or (5) consolidated schools; situated in the same or adjoining counties may, in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed in this chapter, cons…

Sec. 3. (a) If the governing bodies of at least two (2) school corporations desire to consolidate school corporations, the governing bodies may meet together and adopt a joint resolution declaring intention to consolidate school corporations. The resolution must set out the follo…

Sec. 4. (a) If the joint resolution under section 3 of this chapter provides that the consolidated schools shall be under the direction of the county superintendent of schools, the resolution may be amended by following the procedure in this section to provide that the consolidat…

Sec. 5. (a) If a petition is filed in one (1) or more of the school corporations protesting consolidation as provided in this chapter by the legal voters of any school corporation the governing body of which proposes to consolidate, the governing body in each school corporation i…

Sec. 5.5. (a) If twenty percent (20%) of the legal voters residing in any school corporation jointly with twenty percent (20%) of the legal voters in each of one (1) or more other school corporations: (1) prepare a resolution for a proposed consolidation that sets forth: (A) subj…

Sec. 6. (a) On the day and hour named in the notice filed under section 5 of this chapter, polls shall be opened and the votes of the registered voters shall be taken upon the public question of consolidating school corporations. The election shall be governed by IC 3, except as …

Sec. 7. (a) Each school of the consolidated schools is under the control and management of the original governing body until the consolidated school corporation comes into existence at the time provided in section 8 of this chapter. When the consolidated school corporation comes …

Sec. 8. (a) Consolidated schools are under the control and management of the consolidated governing body created under this chapter, and a new consolidated school corporation comes into existence: (1) at the time specified in the resolutions provided in section 3, 4, 5.5, or 12.5…

Sec. 9. (a) When any: (1) school town; (2) school city; (3) school township; (4) joint school; or (5) consolidated school; has become consolidated by resolution or election and the new governing body has been appointed and legally organized, the former school township, school tow…

Sec. 1. (a) Individuals who work at a charter school are employees of the charter school or of an entity with which the charter school has contracted to provide services. (b) Teachers in a conversion charter school may be employees of the charter school or of both the charter sch…

Sec. 2. Individuals must choose to be teachers at a charter school voluntarily, and a charter school must voluntarily choose those individuals to be its teachers. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5.5-6-2.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.8.

Sec. 3. (a) Employees of a charter school may organize and bargain collectively under IC 20-29. (b) This subsection applies to a conversion charter school. For any collective bargaining agreement under IC 20-29 entered into after July 1, 2015, a governing body is not bound by its…

Sec. 5. (a) At least ninety percent (90%) of the individuals who teach full time in a charter school must either: (1) hold any license or permit to teach in a public school in Indiana described in: (A) IC 20-28-5; or (B) rules adopted by the state board concerning the licensing o…

Sec. 6. A charter school may employ a substitute teacher or an individual who holds a limited license to teach in the same manner in which a noncharter public school may employ a substitute teacher or an individual who holds a limited license to teach. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Se…

Sec. 7. (a) A charter school may participate in any of the following: (1) The Indiana state teachers' retirement fund in accordance with IC 5-10.4. (2) The public employees' retirement fund in accordance with IC 5-10.3. (3) Another employee pension or retirement fund. (b) Except …

Sec. 8. The decision by an authorizer whether to grant a charter is not subject to restraint by a collective bargaining agreement. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5.5-6-8.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.280-2013, SEC.42.

Sec. 1. The following school city conditions and needs are found to exist on January 1, 1995: (1) Education in the school city presents unique challenges. (2) Student achievement in the school city on statewide tests consistently has been significantly below: (A) the state averag…

Sec. 1. This chapter does not apply to: (1) a nonpublic school or to a nonpublic school bus driver contract executed for a nonpublic school; or (2) an educational service center (as defined by IC 20-20.5-1-3) or a school bus driver contract executed for an educational service cen…

Sec. 2. Parents may provide bus transportation for students enrolled in a public school who are not provided transportation by the school corporation. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-9.1-2.5-1.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11.

Sec. 3. (a) The parents of public school students not provided bus transportation by the school corporation may contract jointly with a school bus driver to provide transportation under a parents' supplemental transportation contract. (b) A parents' supplemental transportation co…

Sec. 4. A parents' supplemental transportation contract must include the following: (1) The type of school bus equipment to be furnished by the school bus driver, including a provision that the contract incorporate by reference any equipment requirements prescribed by the committ…

Sec. 5. Before a school bus driver may enter into a parents' supplemental transportation contract, the school bus driver must meet the following prerequisites: (1) The school bus driver must meet all physical requirements required of school bus drivers by the committee, including…

Sec. 6. A substitute school bus driver may not operate a school bus unless the substitute school bus driver meets the standards required by IC 20-27-8-1 or any other committee requirements for substitute school bus drivers. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodificat…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (d), a school bus operating under a parents' supplemental transportation contract may only be used for the following purposes: (1) Transportation of eligible students to and from school. (2) Transportation of eligible students…

Sec. 8. A person who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly violates this chapter commits a Class C misdemeanor. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-9.1-5-22.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.231-2005, SEC.37.

Sec. 1. (a) Not later than ten (10) days after a request from the governing body, the superintendent of a school corporation shall make a report on an individual being considered by the school corporation for either a teaching appointment or an indefinite contract as described in…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided under section 7.3 of this chapter, a contract entered into by a teacher and a school corporation must: (1) be in writing; (2) be signed by both parties; and (3) contain the: (A) beginning date of the school term as determined annually by the school …

Sec. 3. The secretary of education shall do the following: (1) Prescribe the following forms: (A) The uniform teacher's contract in the following alternate forms: (i) The regular teacher's contract. (ii) The temporary teacher's contract. (B) The supplemental service teacher's con…

Sec. 4. (a) This section does not apply to: (1) a teacher employed as a substitute teacher; or (2) an individual who holds an adjunct teacher permit issued by the governing body of a school corporation or the equivalent authority for a charter school or nonpublic school under IC …

Sec. 5. The regular teacher's contract must be used statewide without amendment and must contain, in addition to the items in section 2(a)(3) of this chapter: (1) the manner of salary payment; and (2) any provisions relating to the government of the school that the secretary of e…

Sec. 6. (a) A temporary teacher's contract shall be used only for employing: (1) a teacher to serve in the absence of a teacher who has been granted a leave of absence by the school corporation for: (A) engaging in defense service or in service auxiliary to defense service; (B) p…

Sec. 7. (a) As used in this section, "teacher" includes an individual who: (1) holds a substitute teacher's license; and (2) provides instruction in a joint summer school program. (b) The supplemental service teacher's contract shall be used when a teacher provides professional s…

Sec. 7.3. (a) An employment agreement entered into between a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school and an individual who holds an adjunct teacher permit issued by the governing body of a school corporation or the equivalent authority for a charter school or nonp…

Sec. 7.5. (a) A teacher who is subject to section 8 of this chapter is not subject to this section. (b) A teacher who: (1) serves under contract as a teacher in a school corporation; (2) is in the teacher's first or second year of full-time teaching in a classroom; and (3) has no…

Sec. 8. (a) An individual who: (1) serves under contract as a teacher in a public school corporation before July 1, 2012; and (2) at any time before July 1, 2012, enters into a teacher's contract for further service with the school corporation; becomes, by entering into the contr…

Sec. 9. (a) A teacher serving under a regular contract at a laboratory school operated under IC 20-24.5-2 who is offered and accepts a position in the local school corporation that is a party to the agreement with the university operating the laboratory school is entitled to: (1)…

Sec. 1. (a) School employers and school employees shall: (1) have the obligation and the right to bargain collectively the items set forth in section 4 of this chapter; and (2) enter into a contract embodying any of the matters listed in section 4 of this chapter on which they ha…

Sec. 10. Nothing shall prevent a superintendent or the superintendent's designee from making recommendations to the school employer. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-7.5-1-5(b).] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.13.

Sec. 12. Formal collective bargaining between a school corporation and the exclusive representative shall not begin before: (1) September 15 in the first year of the state budget biennium; or (2) September 15 in the second year of the state budget biennium if the parties agreed t…