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IN HB1179
Bill
Status
3/23/2016
Primary Sponsor
Donna Harris
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AI Summary
HEA 1179 Summary
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Expands the Earline S. Rogers student teaching stipend for minority students to include those participating in school administration internships as part of graduate degree programs, effective July 1, 2016.
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Allows school administration internship participants to receive up to $4,000 in stipend funds, with priority given to student teaching applicants when the commission selects recipients.
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Requires student teaching stipend recipients to agree in writing to apply for teaching positions at accredited Indiana schools and teach for at least three years if hired.
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Authorizes the Distressed Unit Appeals Board to augment appropriations by up to $500,000 from unexpended education department funds for the 2015-2017 biennium to provide grants to financially distressed school corporations for capital improvements necessary to keep school buildings open.
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Caps all scholarship and fee remission benefits (with limited exceptions) at four undergraduate academic years and requires benefits to be used within eight years of initial eligibility.
Legislative Description
Minority student teaching stipend and school capital improvements. Provides that a minority student who participates in a school administration internship as part of the student's graduate degree program is eligible to receive a stipend from, currently, the student teaching stipend for minorities. Names the student teaching stipend for minority students after Earline Rogers. Provides that with the approval of the governor and the budget agency, the amount appropriated in the 2015 budget bill for the distressed unit appeals board (DUAB) for the 2015-2017 biennium, may be augmented from unexpended appropriations to the department of education in an amount specified by
Last Action
Public Law 159
3/23/2016