Indiana Code 20-26-15-7. Educational benefits required during contract period
(1) An average attendance rate that increases:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 20-26-15-7
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- freeway school: refers to :
Indiana Code 20-26-15-2
- freeway school corporation: refers to a school corporation that enters into a contract under this chapter. See Indiana Code 20-26-15-3
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the average attendance rate is ninety percent (90%).
(2) A successful completion rate of the assessment program by meeting essential standards under the statewide assessment program or a locally adopted assessment program established under section 6(4) of this chapter that increases:
(A) not less than two percent (2%) each school year until the successful completion rate is not less than eighty-five percent (85%); and
(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the successful completion rate is not less than ninety percent (90%);
of the students in the designated grade levels under the statewide assessment program or the locally adopted assessment program that are grades contained in the freeway school corporation or freeway school.
(3) Beginning with the class of students who expect to graduate four (4) years after a freeway school corporation or a freeway school that is a high school obtains freeway status, a graduation rate as determined under 511 IAC 6.1-1-2(k) that increases:
(A) not less than two percent (2%) each school year until the graduation rate is not less than eighty-five percent (85%); and
(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the graduation rate is ninety percent (90%).
Except as provided under section 15 of this chapter (before its expiration), after a freeway school corporation or a freeway school has achieved the minimum rates required under subdivisions (1) through (3), the freeway school corporation or freeway school must either maintain the minimum required rates or show continued improvement of those rates.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-62-7.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.242-2017, SEC.19; P.L.108-2018, SEC.1; P.L.140-2018, SEC.10.