Sec. 7. (a) This section applies to any teacher instructing students in a content area and grade subject to IC 20-32-5-2 (for a school year ending before July 1, 2018), and IC 20-32-5.1 (for a school year ending after June 30, 2018).

     (b) A student may not be instructed for two (2) consecutive years by two (2) consecutive teachers, each of whom was rated as ineffective under this chapter in the school year immediately before the school year in which the student is placed in the respective teacher’s class.

     (c) If a teacher did not instruct students in the school year immediately before the school year in which students are placed in the teacher’s class, the teacher’s rating under this chapter for the most recent year in which the teacher instructed students, instead of for the school year immediately before the school year in which students are placed in the teacher’s class, shall be used in determining whether subsection (b) applies to the teacher.

As added by P.L.90-2011, SEC.39. Amended by P.L.242-2017, SEC.21; P.L.192-2018, SEC.13; P.L.200-2023, SEC.20.