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IN SB0301
Bill
AI Summary
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Changes the mandatory kindergarten enrollment age from seven years to five years of age, effective beginning the 2015-2016 school year.
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Requires students to enroll in kindergarten no later than the fall term of the school year in which they turn five years old.
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Updates compulsory school attendance requirements so students are bound by attendance rules starting when they become five years old instead of seven years old.
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Allows parents to appeal to the superintendent for earlier kindergarten enrollment if their child does not meet the minimum age requirement.
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Makes conforming amendments to Indiana Code sections addressing eligible students for choice scholarships and scholarship granting organizations to reflect the new five-year-old enrollment date (August 1).
Legislative Description
Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes five years of age (rather than seven years of age). Makes conforming amendments.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Education & Career Development
1/8/2015