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The 2025 legislative session is more likely to deliver large adjustments to Indiana faculties, from how they obtain funding, to what college students be taught and the way lecturers train.
As a part of our protection this yr, Chalkbeat Indiana is monitoring this yr’s largest training payments as they transfer by means of the statehouse.
Beneath are payments that will make substantial adjustments to insurance policies affecting Indiana college students and lecturers. Meaning usually, we’re not together with payments that make minor adjustments to current grants and packages, or to the make-up of state commissions and governing our bodies.
This web page shall be up to date weekly on Fridays all through the session. A full checklist of payments is out there on the Common Meeting web site. A number of the invoice descriptions under come from the Common Meeting.
This yr, payments should obtain a 3rd studying of their originating chamber by Feb. 20, or else they’ll be thought-about useless earlier than they transfer to the alternative chamber. Then, they have to obtain a 3rd studying within the reverse home by April 15.
As of Feb. 14, a number of high-profile payments haven’t obtained committee hearings. With no training committees left on the schedule earlier than the Feb. 20 deadline, these payments might be thought-about useless until their language is added by modification to a different invoice. A few of these payments embody:
- HB 1136, which might have dissolved Indianapolis Public Faculties and transitioned all its faculties into constitution faculties.
- HB 1501, which might have turned over IPS faculty buildings and transportation to a centralized board.
- HB 1394, which might have given faculties the authority to disclaim enrollment to undocumented immigrant college students. (One other immigration invoice, HB 1531, requires faculty districts to report what number of undocumented college students are enrolled annually. This invoice is scheduled for a listening to in Home Judiciary Monday.)
- SB 257, which prohibited educating that sure ideas like discrimination are a part of the U.S. nationwide id.
Payments highlighted under are transferring ahead this yr. Payments referred to committees apart from the training committees should have an opportunity to advance.
Extra details about how a invoice turns into a regulation is out there right here. You may as well discover extra info on the 2 training committees right here.
This yr is a protracted price range session, which suggests lawmakers should adjourn by April 29.
Schooling payments within the Indiana Senate
Senate lawmakers had till Jan. 9 to file payments.
At a Feb. 5 assembly of the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth, Sen. Jeff Raatz, the Republican committee chair, indicated that the committee would meet solely as soon as extra within the first half of the session to vote on one invoice, SB 257. Meaning any invoice assigned to the training committee that has not but obtained a listening to would successfully be thought-about useless.
SB 1: Property tax aid.
Description: The closely amended SB 1 restricts the quantity by which property taxes can develop annually to 0% in 2026, 1% in 2027 and a couple of% in 2028. It additionally restricts faculty referendum poll inquiries to basic election years. Learn extra.
Standing: Ready for third studying within the Senate.
SB 8: College referendums.
Description: Gives that college referendums could also be positioned on the poll solely at a main election carried out in a basic election yr or a basic election. Modifications the timeline for a college district to resume a referendum. Gives that in a neighborhood public query, a college company should present the whole quantity of property tax income anticipated to be collected annually.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Coverage.
SB 11: Minor entry and use of social media.
Description: Parental consent for social media use for these beneath 16 years outdated
Standing: Handed the Senate 42-7 on Jan. 23.
SB 16: Expulsion and suspension.
Description:New necessities and restrictions for suspension and expulsion in public faculties, together with that college students might solely be suspended or expelled if it’s crucial to attenuate bodily hurt and college disruption. Requires faculties to offer companies to suspended college students.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Description:Reduces hours and necessities to obtain required literacy endorsement for licensure renewal
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 36: Counselor time with ratio exemption.
Description:Mandates that in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 a college shall be sure that not less than 60% of a college counselor’s time is dedicated to offering direct companies to college students. In 2027-2028, that goes as much as 80%.
Standing: Heard within the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth on 1/15. Will likely be amended to as a substitute prohibit faculties with counselor to pupil ratios of greater than 350-to-1 from requiring counselors to manage assessments.
SB 67: Secured faculty security grants.
Description:Grant from the secured faculty fund for use to offer funding for varsity workers to obtain youth violence early intervention coaching. Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 110, SB 496: College based mostly well being facilities.
Description:Requires DOE and DOH to ascertain a program to assist faculties set up well being facilities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth. SB 132: Childhood weight problems research matters.
Description: Establishes the childhood weight problems fee as a short lived fee to review childhood weight problems.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Household and Kids Companies.
Description: Stipulates that the federal government might not intervene in a guardian’s proper to direct the upbringing of their baby — until there’s a compelling governmental curiosity. It additionally specifies that the invoice can’t be construed to permit a guardian to entry medical care for his or her baby that the kid is just not legally allowed to have, reminiscent of puberty blockers and different gender-affirming care at present banned for minors in Indiana, based on examples given in committee.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Jan. 27.
SB 146: Trainer compensation.
Description: Makes a number of adjustments to instructor compensation and advantages:
- Will increase minimal instructor salaries to $45,000.
- Gives 20 days of paid parental depart for full-time lecturers.
- Joins the interstate instructor mobility compact.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 4. Learn extra right here.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive faculties eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 213: Okay-12 training funding.
Description: Establishes a $65,000 minimal wage for lecturers, raises the revenue cap to take part within the On My Method Pre-Okay program, specifies will increase for varsity funding, appropriates funding for instructor recruitment and retention.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
Description: Gives {that a} political motion committee (PAC) might not make complete annual contributions in extra of an combination of $5,000 apportioned in any method to a particular candidate for a college board workplace.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Elections.
Description: Requires a college employer to debate sure objects with the unique consultant of certificated workers.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 230: Collective bargaining.
Description: Requires a college employer to collectively cut price with the unique consultant of certificated workers packages and issues associated to high school security and related working circumstances.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Description: Prohibits state businesses and academic establishments from taking actions that the invoice defines as associated to variety, fairness, and inclusion, together with holding coaching or influencing the composition of workers as regards to race, intercourse, colour, or ethnicity. Bans state entities from selling opinions on an inventory of 16 ideas together with bias, allyship, cultural appropriation, microaggressions, social justice, heteronormativity, and gender principle. Prohibits entities from utilizing funds for a Range, Fairness, and Inclusion workplace or officer. Permits the state Lawyer Common to compel businesses to conform. Standing: Language from this invoice has been added to SB 289.
Description: Amends provisions that permit faculty firms to offer a supplemental cost to lecturers in extra of negotiated wage and permits districts to exclude income from bargaining for this objective.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 11.
SB 255: Schooling issues – licensing, non secular instruction, bullying.
Description:
- Permits secondary college students to obtain non secular instruction through the faculty day equal to the time spent attending an elective course.
- Requires the Division of Schooling to grant preliminary practitioner licenses to people who maintain levels in STEM topics and have accomplished a sure variety of educating programs.
- Requires faculties to tell the mother and father of each the sufferer and perpetrator in a bullying incident earlier than the tip of the day that the varsity was made conscious of the bullying.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Jan. 28.
SB 257: Civic training – required and prohibited ideas.
Description: Requires faculties that train American historical past and authorities to show rules of the Declaration of Independence, the Invoice of Rights, and the Structure of america. Prohibits this instruction from educating that the nationwide id or tradition has been established by racial id or racial discrimination, gender id or gender discrimination, victimization, class battle, a hierarchy of privileges, or systemic exclusion.
Standing: Heard within the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth on Feb. 5.
SB 285: Comparative school and profession info.
Description: Creates a dashboard to match the typical prices, wages, debt, and {qualifications} for levels and in-demand jobs.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb 11.
SB 287: Partisan faculty boards.
Description: Requires candidates for varsity board places of work to be nominated in the identical method as candidates for all different elected places of work are nominated. Modifies the annual quantity that the governing physique of a college company might pay a member of the governing physique from $2,000 to an quantity to not exceed 10% of the bottom beginning wage of a instructor employed by the varsity company.
Standing: Ready for third studying within the Senate.
SB 289: Nondiscrimination in employment and training.
Description: Requires state entities and public faculties to publish coaching supplies associated to nondiscrimination and variety, fairness, and inclusion. Prohibits these entities from requiring workers and college students to affirm beliefs that any explicit race, intercourse, ethnicity, faith, or nationwide origin is superior to some other, or might be blamed for the previous actions of people who share the identical traits. Creates a criticism course of.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 6.
SB 299: Native public questions.
Description: Modifications the required language for property tax referendums.
Standing: Committee on Tax and Fiscal Coverage.
SB 308: Intimidation.
Description: Gives that intimidation is a Degree 6 felony if the topic of the menace is a public faculty, a state accredited nonpublic faculty, or a constitution faculty.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Corrections and Legal Legislation.
SB 319: Continual absenteeism.
Description: Requires the Division of Schooling to review and make suggestions on the categorization of pupil absences, create an inventory of finest practices to cut back pupil self-discipline associated to absenteeism, and different adjustments associated to absenteeism.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 330: College air high quality research.
Description: Requires the Indiana division of well being to conduct an air high quality research of each faculty situated in Indiana.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Well being and Supplier Companies.
SB 335: Trainer retention grant program.
Description: Creates the instructor retention grant.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 336: Property tax income shared with constitution faculties.
Description: Removes and repeals provisions that require faculty firms situated in sure counties to share operations fund property tax funds.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 343: Tenure and viewpoint regulation adjustments.
Description: Makes adjustments to final yr’s regulation prohibiting universities from providing tenure to professors on the premise of their speech and requiring universities to develop a criticism course of on this topic.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 348: Waiving necessities for accredited faculties.
Description: Requires (as a substitute of permits) the state board of training (state board) to approve an software to waive compliance with sure provisions requested by a college or group of faculties beneath the efficiency based mostly accreditation regulation.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 358: Numerous training issues – voucher eligibility, curricular supplies.
Description:
- Gives {that a} faculty could also be an eligible Selection Scholarship faculty if the varsity obtains provisional accreditation from a nationwide or regional accreditation company.
- Requires the division to find out the feasibility of constructing sure math and English/language arts curricular supplies obtainable to public faculties.
- Language on counselors has been eliminated.
Standing: Handed the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth on Jan. 29. Handed Committee on Appropriations on Feb 13.
SB 359: Pupil well-being and resilience.
Description: Establishes a resiliency program at public faculties to assist college students construct resilience and grit by studying to handle their ideas, feelings, and behaviors.
Standing: Handed the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth on Jan. 29.
SB 365: Schooling issues — consequence experiences.
Description: Requires experiences of pupil outcomes out of sure CTE and postsecondary packages.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb 11.
SB 366: Schooling issues — preschool necessities, faculty board vacancies, faculty switch necessities
Description:
- Ends a provision permitting mother and father to request to switch their youngsters to high school districts exterior their authorized settlement for higher lodging causes.
- Removes a requirement {that a} superintendent should focus on a plan for annual efficiency evaluations with a instructor or the instructor’s consultant.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 13.
SB 373: Schooling — summer season faculty, Division of Schooling authority.
Description: Would change summer season faculty reimbursement to a per-student as a substitute of program price foundation. Additionally requires that the analysis course of for STEM and studying supplies should embody the age appropriateness of the content material.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Jan. 29.
SB 396: Age for obligatory faculty attendance.
Description: Lowers the age of obligatory faculty attendance to five.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 403: Constitution faculty necessities.
Description: Gives that entry to monetary knowledge for native faculties necessities apply to constitution faculties.
Standing: Ready for third studying.
SB 442: Instruction regarding human sexuality.
Description: Gives that, if a public faculty supplies any instruction to college students regarding human sexuality, the varsity’s governing authority should first approve and publish sure info regarding the instruction on-line.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 11.
SB 448: Larger training — diploma and credential issues.
Description:
- Requires that, starting with the 2026-2027 educational yr, not less than 50% of the scholars in a freshman class at a state academic establishment have to be residents of Indiana.
- Requires the Indiana administration efficiency hub to yearly report sure credential info on its web site.
- Requires the secretary of training to ascertain a plan to develop a market pushed stackable credentials and {qualifications} framework.
- Gives that earlier than the fee approves or disapproves a level or program, a state academic establishment shall present, and the fee shall think about, sure info concerning the diploma or program. Requires the fee to: (1) overview every diploma or program for approval or disapproval not less than one time each 10 years, (2) define a course of for diploma and program monitoring, enchancment, suspension, and closure, and (3) publish sure info.
Standing: Handed Senate Appropriations on Feb. 13.
SB 479: Transportation for gender transition procedures.
Description: Makes helping a baby in procuring a gender transition process a Degree 6 felony, however doesn’t apply to a baby’s mother and father, or somebody that has permission from the kid’s mother and father.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Corrections and Legal Legislation.
SB 481: Actual world and finance curriculum grant funds.
Description: Establishes the true world readiness grant program to offer grants to eligible faculties to raised put together college students for all times after commencement.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 482: Absenteeism.
Description: Defines power absenteeism and requires the training division to ascertain a categorization framework to tell apart between excused and unexcused absences based mostly on the explanation for the absence.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 4.
SB 483: Residence faculty regulation.
Description: Requires a guardian who withdraws the guardian’s chronically absent baby from a public faculty with a purpose to homeschool the kid to current a curriculum and programs the kid will full whereas homeschooled and meet recurrently with the superintendent of the varsity from which the kid is withdrawing.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 501: Discussable objects for lecturers.
Description: Requires a college employer to debate objects associated to working circumstances with the unique consultant of certificated workers.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 518: College property taxes.
Description: Requires faculty districts to share property tax income with constitution faculties and different faculty districts that enroll college students who’ve authorized residence in that college district.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Coverage.
SB 523: College chaplains.
Description: Permits chaplains to work or volunteer in public faculties offering secular help or nonsecular help if the coed and their guardian present permission.
Standing: Handed the Senate on Feb. 11.
SB 531: Ban on corporal punishment in faculties.
Description: Prohibits the usage of corporal punishment on college students however makes exceptions for the usage of affordable and crucial pressure in sure conditions.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Schooling payments within the Indiana Home
Home lawmakers had till Jan. 14 to file payments.
HB 1002: Deregulation.
Description: With greater than 70 provisions, this 130-page invoice repeals and removes each expired and current training statutes inside Indiana code. Some notable factors embody:
- Removes a requirement that if a governing physique grants a constitution to a constitution faculty, they have to additionally present a noncharter faculty for college students to attend, permitting districts to turn into all-charter.
- Removes necessities for the secretary of training to have educating and training management expertise.
- Reduces the discover that faculties should present in the event that they eradicate transportation.
- Ends the observe of interdistrict transfers by cause of higher lodging.
- Removes a penalty for not conducting the minimal variety of pupil educational days.
- Specifies {that a} constitution organizer submitting a consolidated audit should embody a breakdown of the actions, monetary place, and purposeful bills for every constitution faculty.
- Repeals particular necessities for faculties to report accidents to employees by college students.
Standing: Handed the Home on Feb. 3.
HB 1022: Antisemitism.
Description: Gives that “antisemitism” has the that means set forth within the Could 26, 2016, working definition of antisemitism adopted by the Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Gives that an act of antisemitism constitutes a discriminatory observe. Standing: Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
HB 1028: Homestead property tax freeze.
Description: Freezes a person’s property tax legal responsibility attributable to the person’s homestead based mostly on the date on which the person acquired an possession curiosity within the homestead.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1041: Pupil eligibility in interscholastic sports activities.
Description: Prohibits transgender ladies from enjoying on ladies’s sports activities groups on the college stage, and requires out-of-state groups to inform Indiana groups if a trans athlete is allowed to play on a ladies’s group.
Standing: Handed Committee on Schooling on Feb. 13.
HB 1045: Trainer compensation.
Description: Consists of faculty social employees and college psychologists within the definition of “instructor” for functions of the requirement for varsity firms to expend a sure share quantity of state tuition help on instructor compensation.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1064: College athletic occasions.
Description: Requires a college company to supply a money cost choice at athletic occasions. Amended to permit college students to request to switch faculty districts for athletic causes.
Standing: Handed the Home on Feb. 11.
HB 1069: Tuition caps.
Description: Requires that, aside from price of residing changes, the schooling price and obligatory charges at specified postsecondary academic establishments might not improve from the time the coed initially enrolls till the coed graduates for an undergraduate pupil who’s an Indiana resident.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1070: Starvation-free campus grant program.
Description: Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program to offer grants to state academic establishments for functions of addressing meals insecurity amongst college students
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1071: Resident tuition price.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive faculties eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1102: Contracting for preschool packages.
Description: Removes language proscribing faculty firms from coming into right into a contract with a religiously affiliated nonprofit preschool program.
Standing: Handed the Home on Jan. 30.
HB 1136: College company reorganization.
Description: Gives that, if greater than 50% of scholars who’ve authorized settlement in a college company have been enrolled in a college that’s not operated by the varsity company on the 2024 fall common every day membership depend date, the varsity company have to be dissolved and all public faculties of the varsity company have to be transitioned to working as constitution faculties.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1160: Pupil immunizations.
Description: Gives {that a} pupil enrolled in a well being career training program will not be required to obtain an immunization as a situation of scientific coaching or scientific expertise required by this system when the coed has a medical or non secular exemption.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1163: College wellness grant fund.
Description: Establishes the varsity wellness grant fund to offer grants to high school firms to help native wellness initiatives developed by the varsity company.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1164: College transportation.
Description: Gives that the governing physique of a college company should reduce or eradicate faculty bus route stops that require a pupil to cross sure roads.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1173: Ban on college practices.
Description: Gives {that a} state college might not examine or self-discipline pupil speech regarding politics, affiliations, perceived bias, prejudice, stereotypes, or intolerance, so long as the speech is protected beneath the First Modification. Bans universities from contemplating a pupil’s race for admission, monetary help, or scholarships.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1195: Pornographic materials.
Description: Requires faculty governing our bodies to undertake procedures permitting neighborhood members to request that sexually express materials be faraway from faculties. Requires faculties to make catalogues of all curricular and library supplies obtainable on-line.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1201: Schooling issues.
Description: An omnibus invoice centered on absenteeism and commencement.
- Requires the Division of Schooling to create an inventory of finest practices to cut back power absenteeism and to ascertain a categorization framework for excused and unexcused absences.
- Requires private and non-private faculties to undertake insurance policies consistent with the division’s categorization framework.
- Prohibits a public faculty from expelling or suspending a pupil solely as a result of the coed is chronically absent or a ordinary truant.
Standing: Handed the Home on Jan. 30.
HB 1207: House science and expertise grant program.
Description: Establishes the house science and expertise grant program to offer grants to private and non-private faculties to develop and implement academic alternatives centered on atmospheric and outer house exploration.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1210: Pupil conduct.
Description: Establishes the behavioral well being fund for the aim of enhancing funding for individualized teaching programs which have a behavioral intervention plan element for sure faculties. Gives a process for a principal to position an aggressive pupil, who has been faraway from a category, into the aggressive pupil’s authentic class, one other acceptable class or placement, or in-school suspension.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1222: Resident price tuition.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive faculties eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1229: Native authorities finance.
Description: Abolishes property taxes and proposes a brand new price and funding construction for faculties to offset misplaced income.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1230: College board elections.
Description: Every faculty board candidate’s political occasion have to be displayed on the poll.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1231: Show of the Ten Commandments.
Description: Requires every faculty company to show the textual content of the Ten Commandments in every faculty library and classroom.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1246: Complete pupil help program.
Description: Establishes the great pupil help program for the needs of funding the formation and staffing of college based mostly and district stage complete pupil help groups, and enhancing staffing ratios for pupil help personnel.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1253: Little one care adjustments.
Description: Numerous adjustments to baby care necessities, together with eradicating the requirement that youngsters receiving care from a college have to be youngsters of scholars or workers.
Standing: Handed Home Methods and Means on Feb. 6.
HB 1256: School financial savings tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the faculty financial savings tax credit score.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1258: Trainer compensation.
Description: States that after June 30, 2026, a college company shall expend an quantity for instructor compensation that’s not lower than an quantity equal to 70% (as a substitute of 62%) of the state tuition help distributed to the varsity company
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1285: Particular training.
Description: Makes a number of adjustments to particular training practices, together with:
- Prohibits faculties from adopting insurance policies to stop mother and father from recording IEP conferences.
- Requires faculties to make use of one one who has obtained nonviolent disaster intervention coaching.
Standing: Handed Committee on Schooling on Feb 13. Learn extra.
HB 1303: Intercourse training.
Description: Specifies that if a college supplies sexual well being training, the instruction have to be complete.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1306: Classroom provides tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the utmost quantity of the revenue tax credit score for classroom provides from $100 to $300.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1321: Social media use by minors.
Description: Prohibits social media use by minors with out parental permission.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
HB 1326: Pupil and educating scholarships.
Description: Removes the revenue requirement and lowers the age threshold for a pupil to obtain a scholarship from a Scholarship Granting Group to attend a nonpublic faculty. Additionally makes adjustments to educating scholarships.
Standing: Handed Committee on Methods and Means on Feb 13.
HB 1348: Personal faculty and residential faculty diplomas.
Description: Gives {that a} highschool diploma issued by a nonaccredited nonpublic faculty (a nonaccredited non-public or dwelling faculty) is legally ample to display that the recipient of the diploma or credential has met the necessities to finish highschool. Gives {that a} state or native company or establishment of upper training in Indiana might not reject or in any other case deal with an individual in another way based mostly solely on the supply of a diploma or credential.
Standing: Handed the Home on Jan. 30.
HB 1368: College referendums.
Description: Gives that college referendums can solely be positioned on the poll throughout basic elections.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment.
HB 1394: Authority to disclaim enrollment to illegal immigrant.
Description: Authorizes a college company to disclaim an immigrant pupil enrollment in a college operated by the varsity company if the varsity company determines by a preponderance of the proof that the immigrant pupil is current in america in violation of regulation.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1405: Pupil bullying and abusive conduct.
Description: Revises the definition of “bullying”. Requires every public faculty, together with a constitution faculty, to trace, monitor, and analyze specified facets of bullying.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1406: Contracts with CSA suppliers.
Description: Gives that people and entities that take part in designated and authorized course sequences, profession programs, apprenticeships, and packages of research resulting in business acknowledged credentials or work based mostly studying programs (collaborating entities) could also be awarded a contract for a public works venture at any contractor tier.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions.
HB 1414: ABA remedy.
Description: Requires the workplace of the secretary of household and social companies to review and put together a report on utilized conduct evaluation (ABA) remedy companies, and prohibits the workplace of the secretary from amending any Medicaid waiver or the Medicaid state plan to cut back or restrict utilized conduct evaluation remedy companies till the overall meeting has reviewed the report.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Public Well being.
HB 1496: State academic establishment administration.
Description: Prohibits use of state or federal funds by a state academic establishment for insurance policies or packages and campus actions exterior the classroom that advocate for campus variety, fairness, and inclusion or promote or have interaction in political or social activism.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling
HB 1498: A-F Grades
Description: Requires the DOE to create a brand new A-F grading metric for faculties. Learn extra right here.
Standing: Handed the Home on Feb 4.
HB 1499: Literacy
Description: Provides an oral language element to literacy endorsements and creates an exemption to the retention rule for English learners who don’t go the IREAD-3 and attend a college the place 50% or extra of scholars are English learners. (Not creates a literacy requirement for directors after committee modification.)
Standing: Handed Committee on Schooling on Feb. 13.
HB 1500: Trainer appreciation grants
Description: Amends the necessities for instructor appreciation grants to incorporate solely lecturers in high-need areas whose college students display annual development.
Standing: Handed Committee on Schooling on Feb. 13.
HB 1501: College services and transportation.
Description: Requires faculty districts the place greater than 50% of native college students attend faculties not operated by the district to take part in a pilot centralized faculty facility and transportation board, which shall be charged with rethinking facility use and transportation, levying referendums and distributing tax income.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1508: Center faculty instruction.
Description: Requires every faculty company to incorporate instruction on fetal improvement as part of the well being training curriculum for college students enrolled in grades 6 by means of 8.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1515: Schooling issues — non-public faculty police departments.
Description: Permits nonpublic faculties to ascertain police departments, obtain science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic instructor recruitment grants. Gives that constitution faculties are eligible to obtain science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic instructor recruitment grants.
Standing: Handed the Home on Feb. 6.
HB 1531: Immigration.
Description: The invoice’s education-related necessities embody that public faculty districts and constitution faculties should report college students’ immigration and citizenship standing to the Indiana Division of Schooling. They need to additionally report undocumented college students’ truancy charges, in addition to what number of employees are employed to offer bilingual instruction.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
HB 1539: Schooling issues — bullying and misconduct
Description: Permits a district to switch both the sufferer or alleged perpetrator of a bullying incident to a different faculty inside the district. Requires faculties to inform mother and father inside 24 hours of a pupil making an allegation of misconduct towards a college worker.
Standing: Handed the Committee on Schooling on Feb. 13.
HB 1629: Communism.
Description: Requires the division of training to develop curricula or approve instruction concerning the historical past of communism.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1634: Math.
Description: Requires faculties to routinely enroll sure college students into superior math programs in center faculty and permits mother and father to decide college students in as properly. Establishes necessities for math screening, analysis, and intervention, and spells out necessities for educating math.
Standing: Handed the Home on Feb. 11.
HB 1636: Dynamic Selection Scholarship.
Description: Permits voucher college students to elect to obtain a Dynamic Selection Scholarship, which permits extra makes use of than a conventional Selection Scholarship, much like the allowed bills beneath an Schooling Scholarship Account.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1640: Preschool.
Description: Expands eligibility for On My Method Pre-Okay to all 4-year-olds, no matter household revenue or mother and father’ job or training standing.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Household, Kids and Human Affairs.
HB 1644: Pupil voting.
Description: Gives {that a} doc issued by a postsecondary academic establishment is just not ample proof of identification. Modifies the residence necessities for a university pupil voting.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment.
HB 1652: Common vouchers.
Description: Removes the revenue necessities for Selection Scholarships.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1658: Tax credit score for instructor skilled improvement.
Description: Gives a tax credit score for skilled improvement.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
Aleksandra Appleton covers Indiana training coverage and writes about Okay-12 faculties throughout the state. Contact her at aappleton@chalkbeat.org.
