YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedures , to which was referred
Engrossed Senate Bill 187 , has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report
the same back to the House with the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
days. For the 1988-89 school year and each school year after that,
Subject to section 1.1 of this chapter, each school corporation shall
conduct at least one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days.
No Not later than June 15 of each school year, the superintendent of
each school corporation shall certify to the department the number of
student instructional days conducted during that school year. The
certification of days must include information pertaining to the
activities conducted on the days described in section 1.1 of this
chapter.
(d) If a school corporation fails to conduct the minimum number of
student instructional days during a school year as required under
subsection (c), the department shall reduce the August tuition support
distribution to that school corporation by an amount determined as
follows:
(1) For the 1987-88 school year, the amount determined under
STEP THREE of the following formula:
STEP ONE: Divide the amount of the total tuition support
allocated to the school corporation for the 1987-88 school year
by one hundred seventy-five (175).
STEP TWO: Subtract the number of student instructional days
that the school corporation conducted from one hundred
seventy-five (175).
STEP THREE: Multiply the amount determined under STEP
ONE by the amount determined under STEP TWO.
(2) For the 1988-89 school year and each school year after that,
the amount determined under STEP NINE of the following
formula:
STEP ONE: Determine the remainder of:
(A) (1) the amount of the total tuition support allocated to the
school corporation for the particular school year; minus
(B) (2) that part of the total tuition support allocated to the
school corporation for that school year with respect to student
instructional days one hundred seventy-six (176) through one
hundred eighty (180).
STEP TWO: Subtract the number of student instructional days
that the school corporation conducted from one hundred eighty
(180).
STEP THREE: Determine the lesser of five (5) or the remainder
determined under STEP TWO.
STEP FOUR: Divide the amount subtracted under STEP ONE(B)
by five (5).
STEP FIVE: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP FOUR
by the number determined under STEP THREE.
STEP SIX: Subtract the number determined under STEP THREE
from the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
STEP SEVEN: Divide the remainder determined under STEP
ONE by one hundred seventy-five (175).
STEP EIGHT: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP
SEVEN by the remainder determined under STEP SIX.
STEP NINE: Add the product determined under STEP FIVE to
the product determined under STEP EIGHT.
(e) The department may grant a waiver of the penalty imposed under
subsection (d) for a particular number of cancelled canceled student
instructional days if:
(1) the school corporation applies to the department for a waiver
of the penalty imposed under subsection (d) for a specific number
of cancelled canceled student instructional days; and
(2) each of the particular number of student instructional days
requested to be waived under this subsection was cancelled
canceled due to extraordinary circumstances.
(f) The department shall develop guidelines for school corporations
to apply for a waiver under subsection (e).
following:
(1) Takes the graduation examination in each subject area in
which the student did not achieve a passing score at least one (1)
time every school year after the school year in which the student
first takes the graduation examination.
(2) Completes remediation opportunities provided to the student
by the student's school.
(3) Maintains a school attendance rate of at least ninety-five
percent (95%) with excused absences not counting against the
student's attendance.
(4) Maintains at least a "C" average or the equivalent in the
courses comprising the credits specifically required for graduation
by rule of the board.
(5) Obtains a written recommendation from a teacher of the
student in each subject area in which the student has not achieved
a passing score. The recommendation must:
(A) be concurred in by the principal of the student's school;
and
(B) be supported by documentation that the student has
attained the academic standard in the subject area based upon:
(i) tests other than the graduation examination; or
(ii) classroom work.
(6) Otherwise satisfies all state and local graduation requirements.
(e) This subsection applies to a student who is a child with a
disability (as defined in
IC 20-1-6-1
). If the student does not achieve a
passing score on the graduation examination, the student's case
conference committee may determine that the student is eligible to
graduate if the case conference committee finds the following:
(1) The student's teacher of record, in consultation with a teacher
of the student in each subject area in which the student has not
achieved a passing score, makes a written recommendation to the
case conference committee. The recommendation must:
(A) be concurred in by the principal of the student's school;
and
(B) be supported by documentation that the student has
attained the academic standard in the subject area goals
established by the student's individual educational
program based upon:
and when so amended that said bill do pass.