IN HB1394

Expands school performance reporting requirements to include 24 data points covering enrollment, graduation rates, test scores, student demographics, safety incidents, financial information, teacher qualifications, and chronic absenteeism/truancy/dropout data disaggregated by race, grade, gender, lunch status, and special education eligibility.

Establishes charter school enrollment procedures requiring random lottery selection when applications exceed capacity, with limited exceptions for continuing students, siblings, preschool transitions, and up to 10% enrollment preference for children of founders, board members, and employees.

Creates new "participating innovation network charter schools" that can limit admissions to students with legal settlement in defined attendance areas while maintaining open enrollment for area residents.

Allows innovation network schools to use student growth as the exclusive metric for determining school improvement categories for three (3) years following establishment or reconstitution.

Requires charter schools to establish written discipline rules with graduated discipline systems and allows teachers to request conferences with superintendent or assistant superintendent when contracts are canceled.