Bill Text: IN HB1081 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public school transfers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - Representative Messmer added as coauthor [HB1081 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-HB1081-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-26-11-31.
Synopsis: Public school transfers. Requires the governing body of a
school corporation to establish the number of interdistrict transfer
students the school corporation has the capacity to accept and the date
by which transfer requests must be received by the governing body.
Requires the governing body to publish the transfer request deadline on
the school corporation's Internet web site, and to report the date to the
department of education. Requires the department of education to
publish the transfer request deadlines on the department's Internet web
site. Provides that if the number of transfer requests exceeds the school
corporation's capacity, admissions must be determined by a random
drawing at a public meeting. Provides that a governing body may not
deny an interdistrict transfer for any reason other than capacity. Allows
a governing body to limit transfers to ensure that a student who was a
transfer student during a school year may continue to attend school in
the school corporation, and to allow the siblings of a transfer student
to attend school in the school corporation.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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(1) the number of transfer students the school corporation has the capacity to accept in each:
(A) school building; and
(B) grade level within each school building; and
(2) the date by which requests to transfer into the school corporation must be received by the governing body.
(b) After establishing the date under subsection (a)(2), the governing body shall:
(1) publish the date on the school corporation's Internet web site; and
(2) report the date to the department.
(c) The department shall publish the dates received from school corporations under subsection (b) on the department's Internet
web site.
(d) If the number of requests to transfer into the school
corporation received by the date established under subsection
(a)(2) exceeds the capacity established under subsection (a)(1), each
timely requestor must be given an equal chance to transfer. The
governing body must determine which requestors will be admitted
as transfer students to each school building and grade level by
random drawing in a public meeting.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (f), a governing body of a
school corporation may not deny a request to transfer into the
school corporation based upon the requestor's academic record,
scores on ISTEP tests, disciplinary record, or disability, or any
other factor not related to the school corporation's capacity.
(f) A governing body may limit new transfers to a school
building or grade level to:
(1) ensure that a student who attends a school within the
school corporation as a transfer student during a school year
may continue to attend in subsequent school years; and
(2) allow the siblings of a transfer student to attend a school
within the school corporation.
