2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 20. Education
ARTICLE 26. SCHOOL CORPORATIONS: GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 15. Freeway School Corporation and Freeway School Program
20-26-15-11. Failure to achieve minimum educational benefits standards during contract years one through five

     Sec. 11. (a) A school corporation that enters into a contract under this chapter to:

(1) be a freeway school corporation; or

(2) operate a freeway school;

must achieve the educational benefits that the school corporation agrees in the contract to achieve.

     (b) If a school corporation that enters into a contract under this chapter to be a freeway school corporation or to operate a freeway school fails to achieve any of the educational benefits agreed upon in the contract at the end of a school year:

(1) the state board shall review the school corporation's plan and schedule for achieving the educational benefits, and, if necessary, modify the plan; and

(2) the year in which the educational benefits are not achieved is not included in the five (5) year contract period.

     (c) A contract is void and a school corporation ceases immediately to be a freeway school corporation or to be eligible to operate a freeway school if:

(1) the school corporation or school has previously undergone a plan and schedule review under subsection (b); and

(2) the state board determines that the school corporation or school failed to achieve the following that the school corporation agreed to achieve in the contract:

(A) at the end of the second, third, or fourth complete school year after a contract is signed under this chapter, two (2) of the three (3) scheduled improvements in educational benefits that are listed in section 7 of this chapter; or

(B) at the end of the fifth complete school year after a contract is signed under this chapter, the educational benefits stated in the contract.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-62-11.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10.