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IN SB0086

IN SB0086
Charter schools.

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Introduced
12/08/2025
In Committee
12/08/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead

Introduced Session

2026 Regular Session

Bill Summary

Charter schools. Provides that provisions regarding the following apply to charter schools: (1) Child suicide awareness and prevention policy requirements. (2) Staff performance evaluation plan requirements. (3) Curriculum. (4) Student discipline. (5) Criminal organization activity. (6) Student safety reporting. (7) Government funds and accounts. (8) Certain notice requirements regarding convictions of licensed employees. Removes the charter board, state educational institutions, and nonprofit college or university governing boards from the definition of an authorizer. After June 30, 2026, provides that the charter board, state educational institutions, and governing boards may not issue new charters or renew existing charters. After June 30, 2026, establishes a five year moratorium that prohibits an authorizer from granting a charter to an organizer to establish and operate a charter school in Indiana. Requires charter schools to provide transportation services to all students who reside within the public school district within which the charter school is located. Exempts school corporations subject to certain property tax sharing requirements from the dollar law. Changes the maximum charter school contract term to five years. Provides that a charter must contain a provision to appoint certain persons to the governing board of the charter school. Requires any public meeting of a charter school governing board where the annual budget is adopted to be held in the county in which the charter school is located. Prohibits certain charter schools from receiving state funding, or from receiving funding from operation fund property tax levies, operating referendum tax levies, and school safety referendum tax levies. Removes, expires, and repeals provisions that require school corporations to share operation fund property tax levy, operating referendum tax levy, and school safety referendum tax levy funds with charter schools. Makes conforming changes.

AI Summary

This bill proposes significant changes to charter school regulations and funding in Indiana. The key provisions include: establishing a five-year moratorium on creating or renewing charters after June 30, 2026; removing certain entities like state educational institutions and nonprofit college governing boards from the list of charter school authorizers; requiring charter schools to provide transportation services to students within their school district; limiting charter school contracts to five years; mandating that charter school governing boards include at least one parent of a current student and one resident of the school district; requiring charter schools to adopt performance evaluation plans for certificated employees; and creating new funding restrictions for charter schools with fewer than 100 students. Specifically, charter schools with less than 100 students would become ineligible for state and local property tax funding after their spring ADM count date, and students in such schools would be allowed to transfer to the local public school corporation. The bill also includes various technical amendments and expiration dates for different provisions, signaling a significant restructuring of charter school operations and funding in Indiana.

Committee Categories

Education

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development (on 12/08/2025)

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