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IN SB0498
Bill
AI Summary
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Allows the Indiana Department of Education to grant applications adding additional content areas to valid Indiana teaching licenses for teachers who hold valid out-of-state teaching licenses in new content areas and passed required content licensure tests.
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Clarifies that experience and additional content area degrees may account for not more than 33.33% (changed from 33%) of salary increase calculations for teachers employed by school corporations.
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Permits school corporations to provide supplemental payments to teachers earning master's degrees in content areas related to dual credit courses, advanced placement courses, or other courses they teach, or to elementary teachers with master's degrees in math or reading and literacy.
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Establishes that teachers rated "ineffective" or "improvement necessary" cannot receive raises or increments the following year unless they are in their first two full years of teaching in Indiana or another state.
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Requires school corporations to submit local compensation plans to the Department of Education specifying teacher salary ranges, which the department must publish on its website.
Legislative Description
Teacher compensation. Provides that certain factors may account for not more than 33.33% (instead of 33%) of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment in salary. Amends the factor concerning additional content area degrees and credit hours in determining a teacher's increase or increment in salary. Requires the department of education to grant an application to add an additional content area or areas to a valid Indiana teaching license if certain conditions apply.
Last Action
Public Law 216
4/27/2017