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IN HB1177
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/13/2014
Primary Sponsor
Philip GiaQuinta
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AI Summary
- Establishes the Rewarding Innovation, Technology, and Excellence (RITE) program administered by the education roundtable to award grants to schools demonstrating improvement toward state board benchmarks
- Requires applicants to show how their innovation, use of technology, or other excellence efforts led to meeting established benchmarks, with the education roundtable determining appropriate benchmarks for each applicant
- School corporations must provide matching funds of at least $1 in local money for each $1 of grant money received, with local funds sourced from the school corporation, public school foundations, community foundations, or private sources
- Caps individual school corporation grants at $50,000 total across all state fiscal years and caps total program grants at $1,000,000 across all school corporations and all state fiscal years
- Funds grants from the innovative school improvement fund with amounts necessary for grants appropriated from that fund; effective July 1, 2014
Legislative Description
RITE program grants.
Last Action
First Reading: Referred to Education
1/13/2014
Committee Referrals
Education1/13/2014
Full Bill Text
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