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IN HB1238
Bill
Status
1/13/2015
Primary Sponsor
Philip GiaQuinta
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AI Summary
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Establishes the Rewarding Innovation, Technology, and Excellence (RITE) program administered by the education roundtable with state board of education approval to award grants to school corporations demonstrating improvement toward state-developed benchmarks.
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Requires applicant school corporations to demonstrate how their innovation, use of technology, or other excellence efforts led to improvement in meeting the established benchmarks.
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School corporations receiving grants must match funding at a 1:1 ratio using local money from school corporations, public school foundations, community foundations, or other private sources.
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Limits individual school corporation grants to $50,000 total across all state fiscal years and caps total program funding at $1,000,000 across all fiscal years.
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Funds grants from state general fund and establishes application standards and guidelines through the education roundtable, with two-year certification requirements for participating school corporations.
Legislative Description
RITE program grants. Provides that the education roundtable, with approval by the state board of education, shall develop the rewarding innovation, technology, and excellence (RITE) program to award grants to school corporations whose schools have exhibited improvement toward benchmarks developed by the state board of education. Provides that a school corporation that applies for a grant under the RITE program must demonstrate how the school corporation's: (1) innovation; (2) use of technology; or (3) other efforts to achieve excellence; have led to improvement in meeting the benchmarks. Specifies that grants under the RITE program must be made from the state
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Education
1/13/2015