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IN HB1056
Bill
Status
4/15/2015
Primary Sponsor
Edmond Soliday
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AI Summary
HEA 1056 Summary
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School corporations must accept transfer students without legal settlement whose parent is a current employee of the school corporation, if capacity allows (effective July 1, 2015).
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When transfer requests exceed school corporation capacity, the governing body selects admitted transfer students through random drawing in a public meeting.
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Elementary school students from accredited nonpublic schools may transfer to high school in a school corporation where they lack legal settlement if they attended the nonpublic school for at least 2 years and the nonpublic school does not offer grades 9-12.
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The nonpublic school transfer provision applies only to school corporations with one or fewer high schools and requires that the majority of same-grade students at the nonpublic school have legal settlement in the receiving school corporation.
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If nonpublic school transfer requests exceed capacity, the governing body determines admissions through random drawing in a public meeting.
Legislative Description
Student transfers. Provides that a student may transfer to a school corporation if the student's parent is an employee of the school corporation and the school corporation has the capacity to accept the student. Provides that an elementary school student who attended an accredited nonpublic elementary school in the attendance area of a school corporation in which the student does not have legal settlement may attend a high school in the school corporation if the school corporation: (1) has the capacity to accept the student and the majority of the students in the same grade as the transferring student at
Last Action
Public Law 17
4/15/2015