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Off-campus not off-limits When police, principal intertwine Alternative school vehicle search upheld Law enforcement presence affects student discipline questioning The U.S. District Court for the Northern As police officers become ever more pervasive in the schoolhouse, and District of Indiana rules in Kissinger v. educators re-examine their safety and security protocols in the aftermath of FWCS , No. 1:16-cv-126-JD, that the Fort the devastating shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, the Indiana Wayne Community Schools acted within its Court of Appeals splits in a case navigating the blurred lines between authority when it searched a student’s vehicle traditional in-school discipline and juvenile justice interventions. parked off campus during the school day based on reasonable suspicion the student When graffiti began appearing on the walls of the boys’ restrooms at was in possession of drugs. The physical Brownsburg High School, Assistant Principal Demetrius Dowler began an location of the student’s property is not by investigation, reviewed surveillance video footage, and reported the vandalism itself determinative, concludes Judge Jon to Officer Nathan Flynn and requested his assistance. Officer Flynn is a DeGuilio, but one factor to be considered police officer employed by the Brownsburg Community School Corporation. within the totality of circumstances. After reviewing the surveillance video, both Flynn and Dowler pinpointed In the two weeks leading up to the search, the 17-year-old D.Z. as a suspect. Dowler questioned D.Z. in his office with the administration of the L.C. Ward Education door closed, and D.Z. admitted that he was responsible for the graffiti. After Center (an alternative school) observed the telling D.Z. he would be suspended for five days, Dowler left the room, student driving students to and from school, informed Officer Flynn of the admission, and went to contact D.Z.’s father. in violation of school rules, rules specifically Officer Flynn, in full police uniform, then entered Dowler’s office, aimed at preventing students drug use. The interviewed D.Z., and informed him he was being charged with a crime. day of the search, the student again violated the rule by driving another student to school A Hendricks County juvenile court, relying on D.Z.’s admission to the in his car. He parked off campus, also a assistant principal, adjudicated D.Z. for a Class B misdemeanor of criminal violation. When confronted, the student lied mischief and placed him on probation for four months. On appeal, D.Z. about driving a classmate and feigned contended that the statements he made to the assistant principal were ignorance about where he was supposed to obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution park. The student’s “drug-related disciplinary because he was subjected to a custodial interrogation without being advised history, the reasonable inferences drawn from of his Miranda rights. his repeated violations of the school’s driving rules, and evasiveness in explaining his In D.Z. v. State , No. 32A05-1708-JV-1907, the Indiana Court of Appeals conduct all support a finding that Ward’s concludes 2-1 that the trial court erred when it admitted into the record the administration had reasonable grounds to student’s incriminating statements to the assistant principal. suspect that a search” of the vehicle would reveal illegal drugs, wrote the federal judge. When Assistant Principal Dowler reported the graffiti to Officer Flynn and requested his assistance with the ongoing investigation, the school and law The student’s argument for a hardline enforcement investigations became “inextricably intertwined,” writes Court prohibition against searching property of Appeals Judge Patricia Riley in her majority opinion. “Because the assistant located off campus “could lead to frustrating principal and Officer Flynn acted in concert in obtaining these incriminating and dangerous real-life results,” according to statements, and both were aware of the probability of criminal charges, D.Z. the court. “Students could avoid school should have been advised of his Miranda rights. Absent these warnings, the searches by merely parking across the street juvenile court abused its discretion in admitting D.Z.’s statements to the from school property, giving them quick and assistant principal.” unfettered access to all sorts of contraband.” The close proximity of the vehicle to school Key to the ruling is the court’s determination that D.Z. was in the functional — it was parked only a short block away — was equivalent of police custody when he was questioned by the assistant an important factor that weighed in favor of principal in his office with the door closed. “No reasonable student would FWCS, notes the court. The fact that the have believed that he was at liberty to leave the office,” writes Judge Riley. student attended an alternative school also “Although on its face appearing to be a school disciplinary proceeding, the matters because alternative schools have an ‘discussion’ between Dowler and D.Z. amounted in essence to an even greater need to maintain discipline and interrogation, geared towards a criminal proceeding.” safety for the protection of students and staff based on the nature of their population, The bottom line: when a school administrator works in concert with law writes the judge, a former Lake County enforcement, an incriminating statement obtained without a Miranda prosecutor. warning is subject to suppression if a criminal charge is brought. In sum, the vehicle search “was both justified Judge Elaine Brown dissented, arguing the record doesn’t indicate Dowler at its inception and reasonably related in acted as Officer Flynn’s agent in an attempt to bypass Miranda requirements. scope to the objectives of the search,” Look for this one to be taken up by the Indiana Supreme Court. concludes Judge DeGuilio.

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Q His forthcoming “Safe Schools Act” would enable local IN Elementary & Secondary Ed schools to apply for matching grants to make physical and technological improvements to their schools to better protect IN General . . . students. “Like every American, I am deeply saddened by the ! Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Jennifer tragedy in Parkland,” Rep. Messer said. “I drop my kids off McCormick (R) sends a letter to the members of the General at school and like every parent, I should not have to wonder Assembly and Indiana congressional delegation imploring if they will come home that day. We need to focus on them to take action to address school safety: “These efforts securing our schools to keep our students safe rather than must include passing policies which decrease risks, providing going after law-abiding gun owners.” support for social and emotional programs to address mental and behavioral health, and approving budgets that increase Q Under Rep. Messer’s proposed bill, schools could use the resources.” grants to purchase security equipment, make infrastructure upgrades, invest in technology, or hire additional school Q Dr. McCormick also served up some language for state resource officers. The Department of Homeland Security legislators to consider to extend the student safeguards that would administer the matching grant program. currently apply to traditional public schools to charter and accredited nonpublics. ! The Waterford Institute was the lone respondent to a Request for Proposals for Online Pre-K issued by the Family Q Look for IDOE to provide school districts with support and Social Services Administration and the Department of and guidance as students organize and participate in mass Administration. After evaluating Waterford’s proposal, FSSA walkouts and demonstrations in response to the Parkland, decided not to award a contract. Florida massacre. Q Sen. RRRyanRyanyanyan MiMiMishlerMi shler (R) of Bremen, chair of the Senate ! Charter schools and accredited nonpublic schools would Committee on Appropriations, tells your favorite education be required to adopt a school safety plan, but would continue newsletter that Senate Republicans remain committed to to be exempt from requirements that apply to traditional working with FSSA to find a solution to implement the public schools to employ a school safety specialist and have technology-based portion of the On My Way Pre-K program. a safe school committee, pursuant to a Second Reading amendment the Senate added to House Bill 1230. The Senate ! Governor EEEricEricricric Holcomb (R) signs an executive order Committee on Education and Career Development also Thursday creating an Office of Apprenticeships & added a new section requiring the Department of Education Work-Based Learning (OAWBL) as a distinct office within the by January 1, 2019, to conduct a statewide needs assessment Department of Workforce Development. He charges the of the school counselor and school nurse workforces; the OAWBL with doubling the number of Hoosiers who roles and functions they perform; the percentages of time participate in apprenticeships and work-based learning they spend addressing various student needs; the level of programs by 2020. Expect the new office to work with the unmet student needs; how schools are addressing trauma and U.S. Department of Education and Ivy Tech Community social and emotional health; and the steps schools take to College to expand the apprenticeship model into non- promote a positive environment. The Senate approved HB traditional industry sectors like technology. 1230 on Thursday by a 48-0 vote. The key language in the bill as it left the House remains: modernizing the definition of ! Eli Lilly & Company sponsors the Lilly Experience for cyberbullying to include bullying via cell phones, requiring Teachers of STEM (LETS), a two-day workshop at Lilly’s school employees to complete one hour of human trafficking corporate headquarters in Indianapolis on June 12-13. training every two years, and requiring school corporations to Participating teachers receive a $500 stipend and will meet maintain a web link to cyberbullying resources. and collaborate with Lilly scientists and engineers to create lesson plans to be shared statewide. ! U.S. Rep. LLLarryLarry BucBucshonshon (R) tells WEHT-TV Eyewitness News in Evansville that he has some concerns about arming ! The Indiana Department of Education and Teach to Lead teachers. Weighing in on the school safety debate, Rep. host a STEM summit June 14-15 in Indianapolis for 20 teams Bucshon told the station that he favors deploying trained law of teacher leaders to develop STEM action plans. enforcement inside schools. “I know a lot of law enforcement officers, and I know what the training they go through and ! The Indiana STEM Advisory Council is playing catch-up what it requires,” says Rep. Bucshon. “And it’s not as simple to Iowa, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. as being able to fire a weapon. It’s again having the training to also to handle yourself in stressful circumstances.” ! Indiana University has been selected by the Indiana Department of Education to provide a fully online solution ! After visiting Southwestern Consolidated School District’s to assist teachers in meeting the Higher Learning Southwestern High School in Shelby County, dubbed the Commission requirements for teaching dual credit courses in “Safest School in America,” U.S. Rep. Luke Messer (R) on math, science, social studies, and English. An estimated 1,900 Thursday announced he will author legislation to help more dual credit teachers in Indiana would be ineligible to teach if schools adopt these security innovations. the requirement took effect today.

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! The percentage of Hoosier high school graduates who Q A study of induction programs found that being in such took an Advanced Placement exam increased from 18.9% in a program for at least two years can boost student 2007 to 38.9% in 2017, according to The College Board. Over achievement and that they provide a return on investment of the past 10 years, the percentage of Hoosier public school $1.66 for every dollar. Indiana does not have a formal students scoring 3 or better on at least one AP exam increased induction program, but Early Learning Indiana suggests a from 9.7% in 2007 to 19.1% in 2017. pilot program to study the concept. Beyond a baccalaureate degree and mentoring, Early Learning Indiana asserts that Q Indiana ranks 10th among states for the 10-year change continuous professional learning opportunities and better in the percentage of graduates earning a 3 or higher. working conditions will also advance the early childhood profession. A bachelor’s degree standard for pre-K teachers ! The Center for American Progress, a progressive would require increased compensation. While some think-tank in Washington, D.C., counts Indiana among the jurisdictions have offered tax credits or other small funding 39 states that require a half-year civics course. The State of mechanisms to help providers bear the cost, Early Learning Civics Education report also finds that only 10 states had a Indiana recommends that funding for this purpose should be lower mean score on the U.S. Government Advanced part of state and federal budgets. Placement exam than Indiana’s 2.53. Moreover, Indiana is IN Administration . . . not one of the 17 states that requires a civics exam to ! The Distressed Unit Appeal Board is scheduled to vote on graduate high school. Friday, March 2, on the recommendations of the emergency manager for the Gary Community School Corporation to ! The Indiana Department of Education enters into a contract with the National Institute for Metalworking Skills close the Wirt-Emerson Visual and Performing Arts High (NIMS) to pay for capstone assessments for students enrolled Ability Academy and the administration center; offer the in 11 approved career and technical education courses. following building grade configurations: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12; Assessments apply toward the Machining Level 1 National and use Bailly Preparatory Academy as a middle school. Skills Credential. For the 2017-2018 academic year, IDOE Q The Distressed Unit Appeal Board in February approved estimates 299 student tests. NIMS-accredited schools receive a $3.75 million loan for GCSC from the Common School a 20% ($7) discount on the standard $35 test fee. Fund to cover three payroll periods in March and April. ! Thirty Indiana Department of Education staff receive ! The Indiana School Boards Association rolls out a new e- LAUNCH!™ Development Program training aligned to the newsletter highlighting timely information on key issues. 10 Certified School Improvement Specialist™ national standards. IN Budgets & Finance . . . ! The Central Noble Community School Corporation ! The U.S. Department of Education approves a request contemplates restructuring Wolf Lake Elementary School as from the Indiana Department of Education to waive the a K-2 building, and housing grades 3-5 at Albion Elementary section of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that limits School. Indiana to assessing not more than 1.0% of students using an alternate assessment aligned to alternate academic standards ! The Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation is in mathematics and English. forecasting revenue of more than $200,000 in 2018 to be generated from facility rentals, up from only $12,000 three Q The U.S. Department of Education denied Indiana’s years ago. request to exceed the 1.0% cap in science. JJJason Jason BotelBotel, USDOE’s principal deputy assistant secretary, writes that IN Non-Public Schools . . . Indiana does not qualify for the waiver in science because in ! The Diocese of Gary engaged two consulting firms, GP 2016-2017, Indiana assessed less than 95% of children with Catholic and Meitler, to conduct a feasibility study on the disabilities on the science assessments. potential viability of a Campaign to raise general funding for the needs of all Catholic schools and to assess whether a new ! A new report from Early Learning Indiana, Mile Markers: campus should be constructed for Andrean High School. Teacher Education Requirements, Skills & Compensation , cites research suggesting that the best pre-kindergarten Q Based upon the 10-month study, the Gary Diocese has programs in the country employ teachers with at least a determined that Andrean should stay at its current location bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. in Merrillville, but the leaders have not yet made a decision Approximately 51% of Indiana’s early childhood workforce on whether to pursue a fundraising campaign. currently holds a bachelor’s degree. The report proposes an apprenticeship model as one solution for raising the quality IN Charter Schools . . . of the pre-K workforce, but even for those who’ve recently ! The Phalen Leadership Academy is poised to take over graduated with a bachelor’s degree, transitioning into the seven of the lowest-performing schools in Hillsborough field under the guidance of a mentor in an induction County, Florida, if the schools do not improve to a letter program can be fruitful, writes Early Learning Indiana. grade of C by the end of the academic year.

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! Indianapolis Mayor JJJoeJoeoeoe Hogsett (D) revokes the charter ! Enroll Indy received applications from 3,797 students in for the Indiana College Preparatory School, citing financial the first round and matched 89% to one of their top three and academic instability, effective at the conclusion of the school choices. current school year. The charter institution opened in 2015. About 240 students are currently enrolled. ! The Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners votes to approve Thrival Academy: Indy as an Innovation ! The champion of the Mind Trust’s Charter School Design School. Thrival is a study abroad one-year public high school Challenge is the Wildflower Schools, a Montessori for up to that is currently operating a pilot with 20 students from 30 students distinguished by a “teacher-as-entrepreneur” Arsenal Technical High School. The students are in the midst model and an innovative approach to facilities. MattMatt KramerKramer, of a three-month cultural experience in Thailand. who served as Co-CEO of Teach For America before becoming CEO of The Wildflower Foundation, will identify ! The Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners an entrepreneur to lead the opening of three to four votes to restart Wendell Phillips School 63 as an Innovation Wildflower Schools in Indianapolis by 2020. The Mind Trust Network School to be operated by Matchbook Learning and will provide Wildflower with a $250,000 planning grant. The to restart Washington Irving School 14 as an Innovation first Wildflower opened in 2014 and has grown to a network Network School operated by the URBAN ACT Academy. of 14 schools, all typically located in a neighborhood shopfront. “These shopfront settings allow students to engage ! The Monroe County Community School Corporation daily with the community by relying on public playgrounds, School Board votes to remove from the classroom gardens, and civic spaces,” according to The Mind Trust. controversial social studies curriculum provided by Studies Weekly. A pamphlet about slavery included a section titled ! Connections informed students at the Nexus Academy of “Cotton Pickin’ Singing.” Indianapolis prior to the start of the 2017-2018 academic year that it intended to close the blended learning school. IN Policy . . . However, the school remained open when iLEAD Schools ! The North White School Corporation is gathering more stepped in to take over operations. The turmoil that resulted information about qualifying for the Community Eligibility when Connections walked away decimated enrollment; only Provision (CEP) that allows all students to qualify for free 20 students were enrolled on the September 2017 count date, meals regardless of family income. down from 131 in the prior year. The new management is aggressively marketing the newly renamed school with a goal ! The West Clark Community Schools School Board adopts of enrolling 150 students for 2018-2019 (the school is referred a random drug and alcohol testing policy for students who to both as Innovation Studios High School of Indianapolis drive to school. and iLEAD Nexus Academy of Indianapolis). iLEAD is ! The Fort Wayne Community Schools initiates a headquartered in California where it operates a number of community conversation about eliminating standalone schools. Honors classes. More than two-dozen parents and students voiced their consternation with the change during a February Q iLEAD has also discussed submitting an application to meeting of the school board. FWCS indicates that the new Ball State University for a second school as it seeks to expand approach would help ensure that all students are able to meet its presence in Indiana. the Graduation Pathways requirements. ! The pilotED charter school approved by the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office to open this Fall in Fountain Square is IN Referenda . . . seeking to join the Indianapolis Public Schools as an ! The Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners Innovation Network Charter School. downsizes its operating referendum request from $0.5900 cents to $0.4423 cents per $100 of assessed valuation starting IN Contracts & Compensation. . . in 2019 and extending through 2026. The revised ask reduces ! The Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners the annual revenue IPS would collect from $92.4 million to approves a new collective bargaining agreement with the $65.69 million. The more modest spending plan means IPS American Federation of State, County and Municipal will not expand transportation services, must defer Employees (AFSCME) providing a pay raise of between nine maintenance and capital projects, and will reduce the amount percent and 13% to bus drivers, bus attendants, and special of cash reserves from 15% to eight percent. IPS would spend education instructional assistants. $48.7 million on employee compensation, $8 million on services and supplies, $7 million on transportation services, ! The West Clark Community Schools approves a 2.5% and $2 million on building equipment and maintenance. The stipend for classified staff. total property tax impact for the owner of a median-valued home ($123,500) is estimated at $212 annually. The $200 IN Programs & Curriculum . . . million capital referendum remains unchanged. ! The Fort Wayne Community Schools eyes the opening of a new STEAM school for grades 6-12 located on the site of IN Construction & Facilities . . . the former General Electric industrial complex in downtown ! The DeKalb Eastern Schools approves construction of a $5 Fort Wayne. million, 23,000-square-foot school bus maintenance facility.

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! The Indianapolis Public Schools selects Powers & Sons ! Schmidt & Associates and Allegion conducted an analysis Construction Company, Inc. to oversee construction work of all doors throughout School City of Mishawaka facilities, for high school and middle school renovations. in order to increase safety and develop a consistent doors standard. The study identified a cost of just over $2.5 million ! The Community School Corporation of Southern to address 1,053 doors — 309 to be replaced and 664 to gain Hancock County approves a bid for a new turf field at New new locksets and hardware. Palestine High School. The project is expected to be completed in time for the 2018-19 school year. ! The Brownsburg Community School Corporation moves forward with a $7 million General Obligation bond issue to ! The Beech Grove City Schools proposes combining all P-3 replace air handling units at the high school pool, re-roof students at Hornet Park Elementary School and converting White Lick Elementary School, upgrades to the Building the current Central Elementary School into a sixth-grade Management Systems, and various equipment. academy. The district also proposes a new cafeteria at the middle school and re-purposing the current cafeteria into ! The Huntington County Community School Corporation space for band and choir. The current band room would then Board of Trustees adopts a resolution affirming the need for be used as a multi-purpose room for wrestling and other the 2018 Capacity, Safety, Efficiency, Renovation and activities. Technology Project, which will include the construction of a new elementary school, the potential purchase of real estate, ! The Vincennes Community School Corporation readies and the renovation of and improvements to the Huntington for renovation work at Vigo Elementary School, the third of North High School campus. the four buildings VCSC has committed to rehabilitating. Work at Vigo should begin at the end of the school year, and IN Transition . . . bids were opened last week with the following low bidders: ! The Indiana Department of Education announces SSStefanyStefany General Contracting — Wolfe Construction (. $3.9 million); Decakard as the new director of career and technical Fire Protection — Tri-State Fire Protection ( . $273,500); education. She most recently served as the state director of HVAC and Plumbing — sole bidder H-G Heinz ( . $2.5 adult education at the Florida Department of Education but million); and Electric — Weyer Electric ( . $1.05 million). has also spent time as Indiana’s Agricultural Education State Expect contract to be awarded at the March 12 school board Supervisor and Indiana’s Carl D. Perkins Supervisor. meeting. ! The Indiana Department of Education contracts with ! The Brown County School Corporation expects to hire Dona RRRo Rooobertsberts of Brownsburg to serve as an asthma & Performance Services, Incorporated for a $3 million building environmental health specialist. She is a former IDOE and security project. coordinated school health specialist and a registered nurse. ! The Central Noble Community School Corporation moves Q Roberts will oversee an “Asthma Friendly School ahead with a $1.7 million bond issue for air conditioning in Recognition Program” to acknowledge schools that track the gymnasium at the junior/senior high school and roofing students who have self-management Asthma Action Plans, repairs at all buildings. The average residential homeowner implement protocols for students with asthma who may can expect property tax bills to grow by $4.55 annually. require daily or emergency medication, refer students with asthma as necessary to community based medical care ! The Elkhart Community Schools Building Corporation providers, implement protocols for tracking absences due to plans to issue bonds to finance the renovation and expansion asthma, and provide evidence-based self-management of the existing J.C. Rice Educational Services Center, education to students with asthma. Roberts will also including installing an elevator, new fire alarm and fire implement a comprehensive training program for school suppression systems, a bistro for 300 students, and interior health personnel that supports improved asthma outcomes walls to create additional enclosed classrooms. for students via strategies that address indoor air quality, reduce environmental triggers, and improve access to rescue ! The Elkhart Community Schools Board of Trustees medication for students. receives preliminary drawings, plans, specifications, and cost estimates for the 2018 High School Renovation Project that ! Vincent MeoMeo, assistant principal at New Palestine registered voters approved last year via a petition- Elementary School, will become the new principal of New remonstrance process. Palestine Intermediate School (a grade 5-6 building). ! The Elkhart Community Schools Board of Trustees ! Al Gandolfi announces that he will retire July 1 from his resolves to proceed with a bond issue to finance the 2018 position as assistant superintendent of the Lake Central Elkhart Area Career Center Annex Building Project. School Corporation. ! The North Spencer County School Corporation accepts ! Switzerland County High School Principal GGGreggGregg Goewert bids totaling $2.49 million for the Heritage Hills High resigns effective July 14 (at the completion of his current School football stadium renovation and athletic training contract; he has served six years), but Goewert will continue facility project. as a teacher.

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! Ferdinand Elementary School Principal SSStacy Stacy Kitchin “For Gary, this bill converts the locally-elected school board to an announces her retirement. advisory-only board and actually prohibits it from meeting publicly more than once every three months. Surely that is unconstitutional. ! The Vigo County School Corporation hires the University This blatantly takes away local power, guts community engagement Placement Team to find a successor to outgoing and negates the meaning of any vote for school board. It allows Superintendent Dan TanoosTanoos. teachers to be fired without notice or due process. And, there is nothing the local community can do to get their schools back from IN Government . . . the state. Only the Emergency Manager can petition the state to end ! The House votes 95-0 to approve Senate Bill 428 authored the distressed unit status of Gary Schools and return control of by Sen. Andy Zay (R) of Huntington to allow the schools back to the community. ... Normally state takeovers are limited to emergency situations. Yet, the state is taking over Muncie Department of Child Services (DCS) to share information with no guidelines for why. Muncie is a C-graded school about a child with the child’s school corporation . . . . the corporation. This might not be at the top of the state’s grading House votes 97-0 to approve Senate Bill 135, a measure that chart, but it’s certainly not failing. In fact, 68 Indiana school would require the Department of Child Services to notify a corporations have a C grade, which is the average school grade for child’s school within 72 hours if the child has been removed the state. Are those schools next? Financially, Muncie had an issue, from the home. . . . the Senate votes unanimously in support for which they were placed in financially impaired status last year. of House Bill 1314 that would require: (1) the Department Since then, Muncie’s most pressing financial problems have been of Child Services to share data on foster care youth with the turned around .... The new takeover plans are an attempt by Indiana Department of Education; (2) the State Board of Education Republicans to further strip Hoosiers of their right to vote, by to annually prepare a report on foster care youth and allowing non-elected administrators to take over an entire city’s homeless youth educational outcomes; and (3) the school system.” Department of Education to develop a remediation plan for foster care and homeless youth. ! The House votes 93-0 to approve Senate Bill 189, a measure providing that the State Budget Agency “shall” use ! The Senate Committee on Appropriations advanced up to $100 million from the tuition reserve fund to address House Bill 1315 on Thursday after adopting an amendment the deficiency in the K-12 funding formula — $25 million for requiring the Distressed Unit Appeal Board to provide six this year and $75 million for next year. months notice to a school corporation prior to its placement Q The amended bill also would require that each school on the fiscal watch list; requires DUAB to meet in executive corporation operating a virtual education program submit a session to deliberate on placing a school corporation on the report before October 1 to the Indiana Department of watch list; requires a school corporation be given the Education detailing the number of students participating in opportunity to meet with DUAB in executive session prior to the virtual program and the virtual program’s enrollment placement on the watch list; allows a school corporation to policies. appeal its placement on the watch list; allows DUAB to appoint a technical assistance team to work with a school ! The Senate votes 48-0 to approve House Bill 1001. This corporation if the school corporation agrees to accept the bill would require the State Budget Agency to transfer an technical assistance; provides that at least two of the amount from the tuition reserve fund to cover the deficiency individuals appointed to the governing body of the Muncie in the K-12 funding formula. Rep. Sally Siegrist (R) of West Community Schools by the Ball State University board of Lafayette filed a dissent from the Senate changes, sending it trustees must reside within the boundaries of the school to conference committee. district; provides that the terms of office of the two members appointed by the President of Ball State University expire on Q The most recent estimates show the shortfall at $22.8 June 30, 2022, and beginning July 1, 2022, two members of million for the current fiscal year and between $16.6 million the board shall be individuals elected at-large; specifies that and $55.9 million for FY 2019. the current school board becomes an advisory board to the Q The Senate tacked on an amendment restricting the new school board appointed by the President and board of kindergarten ADM count to students who are at least five trustees of Ball State University; provides that the collective years old. The change would result in a statewide funding cut bargaining statute does not apply to the Muncie Community in the second year of the biennium of $5.9 million as school Schools; and allows the emergency manager of a distressed corporations would no longer receive dollars through the school corporation to issue a mid-year reduction in force to funding formula for four-year-olds. About 101 school up to five percent of teachers in the bargaining unit. corporations would see a cut. Of the 77,749 kindergartners in the FY 2018 ADM, about 3.4% are under the age of five, up Q The amendment also exempts the Indianapolis Public from 2.6% in FY16. School corporations are currently Schools from the requirement that closed, unused, or receiving formula funding for about 2,643 four-year-olds in unoccupied buildings first be made available to a charter FY 2018. school. Q The Batesville Community School Corporation has been Q Sen. KKKarenKaren Tallian (D) of Portage, the Senate Democratic forced to inform parents that the Kindergarten Readiness fiscal leader, details why she’s “truly shocked” by the local Program will be canceled for next year and replaced with a control implications of House Bill 1315. fee-based pre-kindergarten class.

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Q The de-funding of four-year-olds will hit early education Q Lawmakers “sold out parental rights to LGBT activists” programs in rural communities the hardest. Many urban when they added the deadline, claims The Federalist, a areas won’t notice because they receive state funding for four- conservative publication. Supporters of tighter restrictions year-olds through the On My Way Pre-K pilot program. assert that a school in California allegedly taught kindergarten students that boys could become girls and girls ! The Senate votes 31-9 to approve House Bill 1398, which could become boys. The House Committee on Education would allow up to eight school districts to form an alliance took testimony from a 17-year-old high school senior who and jointly apply to the State Board of Education for told lawmakers that her speech class included instruction on exemption from laws believed to impede their educational gender-neutral pronouns that sought “to teach students that goals. you can change your sex, and that’s normal.” ! The Senate Education and Career Development ! Freeway-accredited schools would be held harmless for Committee votes to approve House Bill 1399, which concerns their performance, under Senate Bill 354, which passed the elementary school teacher content area licenses; House Bill House 91-5 after passing the Senate 49-0. Freeway schools are 1356 which would allow the Department of Education to exempt from state statutes on curriculum in exchange for audit a school corporation to determine whether it’s agreeing to meet performance standards that are higher than accurately reporting bullying incidents; and House Bill 1421 those for traditional public schools. SB 354 was authored by that would require the Department of Education, at a school Sen. Jeff Raatz (R) of Centerville, the former principal of a corporation’s request, to provide assistance to the school Christian school located in Richmond, and Sen. DDDennis Dennis corporation on implementing an evidence-based discipline Kruse (R) of Auburn, chair of the Senate Committee on plan. Education and Career Development. ! It’s not dead yet! The cursive writing teaching mandate Q The state is currently home to 154 schools with Freeway long sought by Sen. Jean Leising (R) of Oldenburg was Accreditation, most of them private religious schools. amended into House Bill 1420 by the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development, which then advanced the ! The House votes 97-0 to approve Senate Bill 297, which bill to the full Senate. would require school curriculum to include Employability Q HB 1420 also allows a school to provide a supplemental Skills Standards. The Department of Workforce Development salary payment to a teacher who teaches a Cambridge has developed and published a set of 32 Employability Skills international course; specifies that the supplemental payment Standards based on the American School Counselor is not subject to collective bargaining; provides that Association Mindsets & Behaviors, the National Network of Cambridge international courses count toward high school Business and Industry Associations Common Employability diploma requirements; permits school corporations to receive Skills, the U.S. Department of Education Employability Skills state reimbursement for online Summer school; requires the Framework, the ACT WIN Career Readiness Program, Jobs Department of Education to prepare a report on teacher for America’s Graduates Competencies, and The Center for licensing exam pass rates; and requires the State Board of Employability Outcomes Workplace Essentials. Education to issue a report on the validity of the teacher licensing pedagogy and content exams. ! Senate Bill 303 was amended in the House Education Committee to: (1) require the Indiana Secured School Safety ! The Senate Committee on Appropriations on Thursday Board to conduct a review of school safety and make approved House Bill 1426, legislation that would replace the recommendations for improvement before December 1; (2) end-of-course assessments with the SAT or ACT, eliminate eliminate the requirement that schools contact the child high school ACCUPLACER testing, and consolidate the high services agencies in other states as part of the background school diploma options. check for prospective employees; (3) allow schools to receive reimbursement from the Summer school appropriation for ! Law enforcement funds active shooter training programs online Summer School tuition; (4) void the rule in the for schools and universities in some cases with the revenue Indiana Administrative Code that limits Summer School collected from the lifetime handgun licensing fee. That fee reimbursement to teacher salaries and teacher aide wages; and would have been eliminated by House Bill 1424, but the (5) delete the language in the bill as it passed out of the measure died Thursday when it did not receive a hearing in Senate requiring the Indiana Commission for Higher the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Education to establish a system for tracking educator performance evaluation data. ! The House votes 68-27 to approve Senate Bill 65, a measure that would require a school to obtain the written ! The House Education Committee overhauled Senate Bill consent of parents prior to providing a student with 387, the teacher licensing measure authored by Sen. AAAndyAndy instruction on human sexuality. Parents would have 21 days Zay (R) of Huntington in partnership with the Indiana to respond, then the school would send a second notice. If Department of Education. The House amended the bill to parents do not respond within 10 days, the student would allow up to 10% of teachers employed in a traditional public receive the instruction on human sexuality. school to be unlicensed.

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Q The bill was also amended to allow teacher salary ! U.S. Sens. TTToddTodd Young (R) and JoeJoeJoe Donnelly (D) team increase differentials not tied to a specific factor (e.g. with U.S. Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), and Doug Jones experience and evaluation). Officials representing the (D-AL) introduce legislation to update and modernize the Kokomo School Corporation testified in support of the charter of the Indianapolis-based Future Farmers of America change, which the district said would allow it to drive more (FFA). money to beginning teachers and improve retention. ! In informal opinion 17-INF-16, Indiana Public Access Q The bill now requires the Indiana Department of Counselor Luke Britt advises that discussion of a feasibility Education to issue a request for proposals for a new educator study would not be a sufficient justification for an executive licensing exam before September 1, 2018. Rep. Bob Behning session. The opinion was issued to a reporter with The Paper (R) of Indianapolis, chair of the House Committee on of Wabash County who expressed concern with the use of Education, said he supported giving IDOE the ability to executive sessions by three school districts — Manchester evaluate the benefits of replacing the existing Pearson Community Schools, Metropolitan School District of licensing exams with a more off-the-shelf product. There are Wabash County, and Wabash City Schools — to discuss a two major vendors in this space: Pearson and ETS. study on resource efficiency that Counselor Britt concluded only “tangentially referenced” school consolidation. Q Language in the bill permitting prospective educators to ! Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke BrittBritt, in informal receive a temporary teaching license even if they fail the opinion 17-INF-18, recommends that school board members required content area exam was removed. Chair Behning said in the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County we should fix the licensing exam “rather than look at ways to should “tighten-up” their email practices to ensure that go under it.” Rep. Tony Cook (R) of Cicero agreed, with the discussion of important issues occurs during public meetings. retired superintendent adding that he’s hesitant to allow Ann RiceRice, assistant superintendent for the MSD of Steuben someone into the classroom who can’t pass a minimal exam County, initiated the review out of concern that email and said we should look not only at the exam but at the communication among school board members had replaced collegiate preparation. Indiana’s Technical Advisory substantive discussion at subsequent public meetings. Rice Committee (TAC) has reviewed the teacher licensing exams also suggested that school board members had reached a and found no fatal flaws, but did recommend six points for consensus over email regarding a bus contractor. Britt writes modification. that a meeting of the minds over an email chain may violate at least the letter of the Open Door Law: “This is especially Q The amendment also tacked on a pedagogy component so when a board presents mere cursory discussion — or no to the career specialist permit, which allows individuals with discussion at all –at a subsequent board meeting.” extensive occupational experience to teach in high school. Rep. Behning said as an example that former Lt. Gov. Becky ! The House votes 95-0 to approve Senate Bill 217. The bill Skillman (R), whose highest level of education is an would require every school corporation and charter school to associate’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University (earned employ at least one individual to serve as an authorized while in office), ought to have a way to be able to teach high reading specialist trained in dyslexia. The bill also would school government. mandate that school corporations and charter schools screen students for dyslexia. Q Finally, the bill was amended to address supplemental salary payments for elementary teachers who earn a master’s ! The Senate votes 40-10 to approve House Bill 1024, under degree. Currently, elementary school teachers can earn a which school athletic coaches must complete a coaching supplemental payment for a master’s degree in “math” or education course that includes content on heat-related “reading and literacy.” The bill changes the language to medical issues. “math,” “reading,” or “literacy.” The language was requested by Sally Sloan with the American Federation of Teachers ! The Senate Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy approved Indiana. an amendment to House Bill 1039 providing that money contributed to a 529 education savings account for K-12 ! Sen. JJJimJimimim Tomes (R) of Wadesville filed — only to withdraw expenses does not count toward a state income tax credit. four days later — a resolution for a study of allowing teachers ! The House Public Health Committee adopted an to carry concealed firearms in schools. Sen. Tomes, director amendment to Senate Bill 230 that would require teachers of the Second Amendment Patriots, subsequently filed a and other school employees receive at least two hours of resolution seeking a comprehensive review of school safety training on research-based youth suicide awareness and with a goal of doing “whatever is necessary” to protect prevention. students. Indiana State Teachers Association President Teresa Meredith said in a statement in response to the first iteration ! The House Committee on Ways and Means adopted an of the Tomes resolution, “Instead of arming educators with amendment to Senate Bill 242 that would require a guns, lawmakers should start by arming our schools with redevelopment commission to annually provide certain fiscal more psychologists and counselors so kids dealing with information to the governing body of every school trauma get care before they become broken.” corporation with territory in the allocation area.

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! The House Committee on Ways and Means rejected an administrators released a letter to address rampant rumors amendment to Senate Bill 242 offered by Rep. Greg Porter and panic resulting from a Snapchat post by a former student (D) of Indianapolis that would require every school to that read “keep your strap on day and night” that was conduct an annual active shooter scenario training. subsequently shared by a current student who added the caption “can you come shoot up JYPM. I won’t tell” . . . a ! The House Committee on Public Policy adopted an former Griffith High School student faces two felony amendment to Senate Bill 33, the measure on possession of intimidation charges after threatening to shoot up the school guns in church-based schools, to clarify and minimize the on Snapchat . . . Anderson High School and Highland definition of school property, explained Rep. MMMikeMikeikeike Speedy Middle School reported a combined 150 student absences (R) of Indianapolis, the bill’s sponsor. The amendment after a student threatened to bring a weapon to an active provided that the definition of church-based school property shooter drill that was subsequently canceled . . . a Terre Haute covers only the space exclusively occupied by the school . . . North Vigo High School student was arrested for threatening but this all became moot Thursday when House leaders other students on Snapchat with a photo of himself holding allowed the bill to die on the Second Reading calendar after a gun with the caption “good luck on your finals.” The 18 amendments of all stripes had been filed, and they were student claims it was a joke . . . a South Vermillion High reluctant to allow an emotional debate and recorded votes on School student lands in jail for threatening students and gun issues so soon after the Parkland, Florida, tragedy. teachers with a pocket knife . . . a Columbus East High School student was taken into custody for threatening ! Computer science in every school is on the House Third students in a group post on Snapchat . . . a school resource Reading calendar for Monday. On Second Reading for Senate officer with the Allen County Sheriff’s Department arrests a Bill 172, Rep. Ed DeLaney (D) of Indianapolis proposed an amendment to prohibit Project Lead The Way and Nextech 14-year-old student at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School from providing computer science professional development. for posting a threat on Snapchat to shoot up the school . . . He also sought an amendment to remove the bill’s language a threat of gun violence at “SHS” posted on Facebook and providing that the State Board of Education will assume the Snapchat prompted Hoosier schools and others around the duties of setting up the Next Level Computer Science country with the initials SHS to tighten up security, launch Program if IDOE “does not comply with the requirements of investigations, and communicate with parents . . . a Kokomo this chapter.” High School student was arrested for bringing a gun to school and sharing a photo of it on social media . . . the Q The message being sent to IDOE by offering the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department arrested a 12-year-old alternative route for handling the program is we don’t trust female in connection with directing specific and detailed you, suggested Rep. DeLaney. The bill’s author, Sen. Jeff threats on Snapchat toward Dugger Union School students Raatz (R) of Centerville, worked with SBOE and IDOE to and staff . . . Bloomington police apprehend an 11-year-old derive the language, said Rep. HHHolli Holli Sullivan (R) of and a 12-year-old after receiving a tip from Fairview Evansville. This does not mean we don’t trust IDOE, Elementary School about an Instagram video that showed the explained Sullivan, but it means we think this is very two students with a BB gun threatening to shoot their peers important subject matter to help teachers become . . . the Marion Police Department arrests a 14-year-old after professionally developed. There are 291 out of 398 high classmates heard him threaten to shoot up McCullough schools that have a computer science program, said Rep. Junior High School . . . five Corydon Central High School Sullivan. If IDOE agreed to this language specifically, that’s students were arrested by the Harrison County Sheriff for a sad, said Rep. DeLaney. If you like this language, let’s put this Snapchat conversation in which they talked about bringing language in a lot more bills and insult other people in the guns to school and opening fire, prompting a community State of Indiana, he added, Both Delaney amendments were meeting . . . a 15-year-old in Southeastern Indiana was defeated. arrested after posting a threat on social media that read: “First @GCCSchools I have People coming for y’all then we will Q Without any teeth in the law to compel schools to come to @NAFCSuccess we will blow that [expletive] up participate in the Next Level Computer Science Program, will suspended me for no reason be ready 2/19/18” . . . a 16-year- some schools just ignore it? old was taken into custody for sending a Snapchat message with a photo of New Albany High School that read “I’m IN Courts & Conduct . . . getting more than 17 people” . . . Evansville Police arrest a 17- ! In the aftermath of the horrific school shooting in year-old for writing a threatening message on a bathroom Florida: administrators at Adams High School in South stall at Reitz High School, while an 18-year-old Central High Bend send a voicemail to parents after a bullet was found in School student who threatened via a fake Facebook account a stairwell, a bag of bullets was discovered outside the school, to shoot up an unnamed Evansville high school was also and a message on a bathroom wall threatened violence on a taken into custody . . . a 13-year-old female North Junior specific date: “Friday, 2/23 all souls will be cleansed.” A High School student was arrested by the Vanderburgh second specific threatening message the next week (“I forgot County Sheriff’s Department for threatening to kill at least to shoot the school. Wait until tomorrow.”) led to promises 25 people; the threat also started a scare and investigation at of an increased police presence at Adams on Friday, March Bloomington High School North . . . four schools in the 2 . . . at John Young Middle School in Mishawaka, Warrick County School Corporation went into lockout mode

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for more than five hours as the Warrick County Sheriff’s unsubstantiated, but nevertheless increased law enforcement Department investigated a Snapchat threat to kill people at presence at all the Whitko Community School Corporation “both middle schools north and south” . . . a former schools courtesy of ISP, WCSD, the South Whitley Police Columbus East High School student was arrested for sending Department, Pierceton Police Department, Columbia City a violent social media threat that included a photo of himself Police Department, and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s holding a gun . . . Columbus Police arrested a juvenile at Department . . . Elkhart Community Schools officials Columbus East High School for threatening via Snapchat to released a statement Monday confirming that the district was shoot up the school in two days . . . a 16-year-old male at aware of a potential threat for Friday, but that local law Hauser Junior-Senior High School was removed from the enforcement had determined that the threat was not credible. building by Hope Police after classmates reported that he made a verbal threat against the school; on the same day, a ! The Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation on 15-year-old male was expelled from Hauser for threatening to Thursday placed a Columbus East High School teacher on kill a peer . . . Edinburgh Police took a 16-year-old into administrative leave after two students reported to custody after administrators with the Simon Youth Academy administrators that they saw a rifle in the teacher’s truck, reported that the student drew a picture of specific students which was parked in the school’s parking lot at the school. and teachers identified by name suffering from gunshot Police responded and the trades teacher, an employee of the wounds. . . . the Rushville Police Department arrested a 16- district for more than a decade, told them that he had been year-old Rushville Consolidated High School student for hunting and had accidentally left the weapon in his truck. No threatening a school shooting . . . the Indiana State Police word as to whether charges will be filed. and Perry County Sheriff’s Department conducted an investigation leading to the arrest of a Perry County High ! A Fort Wayne man has been posting up in his truck near School student for threatening to harm others . . . the North Side High School, armed with an AR-15 and a Madison County Sheriff’s Department arrests a 19-year-old at handgun, to protect the school from shooters. Mark Cowan the Frankton-Lapel alternative school who openly told is a former U.S. Army veteran and a member of a group classmates he had access to guns and wanted to shoot up the called the “Oath Keepers.” He tells the Fort Wayne school . . . a female juvenile was arrested in Scott County for News-Sentinel that some parents have voiced concern about threatening students and staff at Austin High School on his presence, but others have shown their appreciation with social media . . . law enforcement increased their presence hugs, food, and money. around the M.S.D. of Steuben County due to a safety concern reported by a student at Angola Middle School . . . in Q When asked for comment, the Fort Wayne Community response to the Florida school shooting, the school board of Schools issued the following statement: the Shelby Eastern Schools approves the addition of school resource officers at both the Morristown and Waldron “We do not endorse this kind of activity outside of our school campuses for the remainder of the school year . . . a 15-year- buildings. We understand he has a right to be out there, but we old female Crown Point High School student has been do not believe it adds to the safety of our students. At all of our charged with intimidation for sending a text message bomb schools, we have security procedures in place, including armed threat . . . three students in the Perry Township Schools in police officers at many buildings. We were not aware that Mr. Indianapolis were arrested for making threats against Cowan was outside North Side until local media asked about it Southport High School on social media . . . the Fulton on Friday. He did not notify us. So far, North Side is the only County Sheriff’s Department learned about a Tippecanoe school that we’re aware of that has an Oath Keeper stationed Valley School Corporation student who threatened specific outside.” harm via social media. The Tippecanoe Valley High School student was identified and apprehended by FCSD and the ! iSIGN Media Solutions Inc., which bills itself as a leading Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department before he could provider of interactive mobile advertising solutions, plans a follow through, and the district employed additional safety demonstration of its Security Alert Messaging (SAM) solution measures. FCSD is handling follow-up, including potential in a school environment in Indiana. The company reports charges . . . Triton School Corporation in Marshall County that after discussions have been finalized with school officials was made aware of a threat, and though it believed the and safety coordinators, during the week of March 5, a Snapchat post in question was cobbled together from other demonstration will be conducted in the Mt. Vernon Middle posts, district administrators consulted law enforcement and School, in Fortville to “showcase the solution’s ability to Bourbon Police made an arrest Thursday . . . a potential rapidly alert students and faculty to a wide range of threat made Monday against the Bloomfield School District emergency situations such as an active shooter, intruder on resulted in a full campus lockdown and school resource the premises, or natural event. This pioneering solution is the officers poring over hours of school building videos before first of its kind to not only rapidly alert students and faculty, sufficient evidence was accumulated to allow Bloomfield but also give clear instructions on the quickest and safest Police to make an arrest . . . an email threat to Whitko method of avoiding the threat. While SAM aids in evacuating Middle School administrators attracted the attention of the premises, it can also alert police, EMT services, fire Indiana State Police and Whitley County Sheriff’s departments and other first responders depending on the Department officers, who determined the threat to be nature of the emergency.”

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Q The company adds that the planned demonstration at ! The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation “will serve as provides a $1.5 million grant to the American Council on the first concentrated effort to utilize the mobile alert Education to partner with Credly to evaluate the value of solution as a way of minimizing the deadliness of an active employer work-based training programs. Employees who shooter and other threats. SAM merges both rapid mobile complete ACE-verified training programs will receive a digital alerts with digital signage and proximity messaging, credential and an official transcript with credits that can be maximizing the chance that in the case of an emergency, applied to traditional colleges and universities. students and faculty receive real-time information on the emergency and the best way of safely evacuating the premises. ! As students walkout of high school in support of tougher The solution can be integrated with existing alarms and other gun laws, colleges and universities throughout the state security measures to ensure that authorities arrive, and school release statements of reassurance that any disciplinary action attendees evacuate in as little time as possible.” arising from the peaceful protest will have no bearing on college admissions decisions. ! The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana files suit ! The National College Access Network finds that Indiana against the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation in ranks 37th in the nation for the percentage of the state’s U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on seniors that have completed the FAFSA form as of February behalf of a transgender high school student who was denied 16. access to the men’s restroom. J.A.W. v. Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp ., No. 3:18-cv-00037-RLY. The ! The eagerly awaited annual A Stronger Nation report from student J.A.W. was born female but identifies as a male. He the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation shows 41.9% of has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, is under a working-age Hoosiers have achieved some form of post-high physician’s care, and is taking hormone therapy. school credential, compared to 46.9% of the nation at large. Indiana’s college attainment has increased every year since Q The federal lawsuit alleges that “The denial of his ability 2009 but not at a fast-enough rate to meet the goal of 60% by to use the male restrooms violates both the Equal Protection 2025. About 16% of Hoosiers have some college experience Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States but no credential, and about five percent of Hoosiers have a Constitution and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act certificate as their highest post-high school credential. of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a).” Q The top and bottom 10 Indiana counties, ranked by the percentage of people age 25-64 with at least an associate’s IN Higher Education degree: Best Educated Counties Least Educated Counties IN General . . . 1. Hamilton (66.8%) 1. Crawford (17.2%) ! The current longest-serving college presidents in Indiana 2. Boone (56.5%) 2. Switzerland (18.2%) are believed to be Sister M. M. Elise Kriss, Kriss who has been 3. Monroe (54.3%) 3. LaGrange (18.3%) MM.. Elise Kriss 4. Hendricks (47.8%) 4. Newton (18.6%) president of the University of St. Francis since July 1993 5. Tippecanoe (45.4%) 5. Pulaski (19.0%) (predating the 1997 debut of your favorite education 6. Hancock (43.5%) 6. Jennings (19.1%) newsletter!), and Dr. Earl BrooksBrooks, president of Trine 7. Bartholomew (42.2%) 7. Orange (19.6%) University since 2000. 8. Johnson (42.1%) 8. Owen (20.1%) 9. Warrick (41.8%) 9. Jay (20.6%) ! Harrison College gains a new corporate parent, as 10. Allen (39.3%) 10. Miami (21.2%) Nightingale Capital, LLC, becomes the sole owner and operator. Harrison College had previously been wholly IN Administration . . . owned and operated by Educational Management ! As the Higher Learning Commission was preparing to Corporation. Nightingale Capital is also the sole owner of vote February 22 to approve or reject Purdue University’s Nightingale College in Utah and is affiliated with Palm acquisition of Kaplan University, Purdue faculty members Ventures, whose chairman is Bradley Palmer and which has circulated a petition detailing concerns about Kaplan’s past significant experience with multiple postsecondary practices. Purdue President MMMitchMitch Daniels quipped that the institutions including Nightingale, Post University, Salem petition would have received an “F” if it had been turned in International University, Schiller International University, as a term paper. and Cogswell College. ! Indiana State University increases the cost of a traditional ! State support for higher education in Indiana jumped by residence hall room and standard meal plan by two percent. 13.9% from FY 2013 to FY 2018, according to the annual Grapevine report from the Center for the Study of Education IN Programs & Policy . . . Policy in the College of Education at Illinois State University. ! Ivy Tech Community College enters into new reverse Higher education appropriations in Indiana rose from transfer agreements with the University of Evansville and $1,557,306,211 in FY 13 to $1,773,727,687 in FY 18. Marian University.

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! The Indiana University Southeast journalism program ! Indiana University Bloomington launches IU Corps to debuts a 24/7 streaming online radio station that will air connect students with service-related opportunities. Provost music and student-produced content in news, sports, and Lauren Robel explains, “My hope is that IU Corps makes talk. opportunities for community engagement more visible so that every student can graduate from IU Bloomington having ! The Purdue University College of Education launches an taken part in some type of service — whether it’s a one-time accelerated degree program allowing students who major in volunteer activity, an alternative spring break trip or years of special education to graduate in three years. Special education intensely focused community-based service or research.” is often cited as the area of teaching with the most demand and greatest shortage. IN Gifts & Fundraising. . . ! Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College publicly kicks off a $22 ! The Klipsch Educators College at Marian University rolls million Aspire Higher comprehensive campaign to support out “Teacher Signing Days” for prospective educators initiatives — including the $7 million renovation of SMWC’s modeled after high school athletes who sign letters-of-intent residence hall, which was originally built in 1923. to attend a specific college or university. Renovations have already begun. ! The University of Southern Indiana Board of Trustees ! Trine University raised more than $790,000 for student meets in March to approve a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of scholarships at the university’s 15th annual scholarship gala. Science in Statistics to be offered beginning in Fall 2018. Q Sen. Dennis Kruse (R), chair of the Senate Committee ! The Higher Learning Commission grants accreditation for on Education and Career Development and a member of the the Doctor of Education program in Educational Leadership Trine board of trustees, and an auctioneer by training, at the University of Southern Indiana that will launch in Fall conducted a live auction at the event. 2018. IN Construction & Facilities . . . Q According to the U.S. Department of Labor and the ! Ivy Tech Community College plans to co-locate its Gary Indiana Department of Workforce Development, demand for training programs at the Gary Area Career Center and the school administrators in Indiana will rise by 9.5% by 2022. Indiana University Northwest Arts and Sciences Building. Ivy Tech’s standalone Gary campus building will close. ! The Purdue University College of Education has now integrated more than 50 digital badges into its online Master Q Ivy Tech had previously contemplated sharing or even of Science in Education in Learning Design and Technology acquiring the Gary Area Career Center but determined that program. the facility, which is more than 40 years old, was simply not suitable. ! Ivy Tech Community College South Central eliminates the Certificate in Hospitality Management . . . Purdue ! The Vincennes University Board of Trustees awards a University West Lafayette adds new graduate certificates in $1.58 million contract to Wolfe Construction for the first Managing Information Technology Projects and Qualitative phase of construction of a 45,000 square-foot facility that will Research . . . IUPUI adds new undergraduate certificates in house innovative industry training programs including the intercultural health, social justice organizing, and intergroup John Deere Training Program and Cummins Technician dialogue . . . Vincennes University adds new certificate programs in culinary arts, restaurant and food service, hotel/ Apprenticeship. motel management, agribusiness, agronomy, and accounting, ! Vincennes University seeks state approval to move forward and suspends the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, with an $8 million renovation of the Learning Resource Associate of Science in assistive technology, certificate in Center (constructed in 1957) and a $4.5 million upgrade to surgical technology, and Associate of Science in pre-art the Welsh Administration Building (built in 1952). therapy. ! The Purdue University College of Education will launch IN Research & Technology . . . its third online degree program in the Fall. The new ! Fishers-based VeriCite Inc., which provides plagiarism- Curriculum and Instruction degree will incorporate multiple detection software to about 175 colleges and universities, has concentrations based on existing programs. been acquired by industry leader Turnitin. ! Since January 2015, 155,034 individuals have enrolled in ! Indiana University creates a second major investment fund 34 Purdue University MOOCs (Massive Open Online overseen by the Indiana University Research and Technology Courses). Eighteen of the courses were offered on the edX Corporation (IURTC). platform, and 16 were through FutureLearn. Q The IU Philanthropic Venture Fund will initially be Q The courses are free, but Purdue shares in the revenues capitalized at $15 million and will support early stage generated when learners purchase certificates of course companies that commercialize IU intellectual property. The completion. $10 million Innovate Indiana Fund was founded in 2010.

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IN Transition . . . ! ZZZakiyaZakiya Smith EllisEllis, strategy director for the Indianapolis- ! Governor EEEricEricricric Holcomb (R) makes one new appointment based Lumina Foundation for Education, has been appointed to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education: Mike by the governor of New Jersey as that state’s next secretary of Alley (Carmel), chairman and owner of Patriot Investments, higher education. LLC, and former commissioner of the Indiana Department of Revenue, will serve a term that expires June 30, 2019. He ! The Indianapolis-based Strada Education Network hires is a former chairman and CEO of Evansville-based Integra Erin Roth as executive vice president and general counsel. Bank (since sold to Old National Bancorp). She most recently served as senior vice president and general counsel for Wabash National Corporation in Lafayette. She ! Governor EEEricEricricric Holcomb (R) appoints Jena BellezzaBellezza, vice holds a law degree from Georgetown University and worked president of strategic partnerships and branding with the as an associate for Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Indiana Parenting Institute, as chair of the Graduate Medical Education Board. ! The Purdue Research Foundation appoints RRRi Riiichardchard J. Michal as vice president and chief facilities officer. Michal ! Indiana Wesleyan University names MMMarkMarkarkark Brooker as dean will oversee the five-site Purdue Research Park statewide of the DeVoe School of Business. He was previously assistant network, the $1 billion Discovery Park District development dean of faculty at IWU-National & Global. on the west side of the Purdue campus, and the foundation’s real estate transactions. He most recently served as the ! RRRyanRyanyanyan DonlonDonlon, an associate professor in the Department associate vice president and chief facilities officer at Butler of Educational Leadership in the Indiana State University University. Bayh College of Education, has been named interim chair of ISU’s Department of Teaching and Learning. ! The four finalists for dean of the College of Education at Purdue University West Lafayette are: ! Vincennes University Foundation President BBBumper Bumper Hostetler retires from the position, effective February 23. ••• Donald R.R.R. Easton-BrooksEaston-Brooks, dean, School of Education, Senior President of External Relations Kristi Deetz will serve University of South Dakota as the interim president. • RRReaganReagan CurtisCurtis, chair, Department of Learning Sciences and ! Janet Boston will retire at the end of May as executive Human Development, College of Education and Human director of Indiana INTERNnet, the statewide resource for Services, West Virginia University internship opportunities managed by the Indiana Chamber ••• Stacey Neuharth-PritchettNeuharth-Pritchett, associate dean for academic of Commerce. She has held that position since February programs, College of Education, University of Georgia 2011. Boston also initiated the EARN (Employment Aid Readiness Network) effort with the Indiana Commission for ••• Nancy E.E.E. Marchand-MartellaMarchand-Martella, chair, Department of Higher Education, which provides up to 50% state matching Educational Psychology, Jeannine Rainbolt College of funds for hiring qualified students. Education, University of Oklahoma ! Sarah A. Mustillo has been appointed dean of the College ! J. Douglas Smith is appointed interim vice president for of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. She the Division of Development at Indiana State University and succeeds John McGreevyMcGreevy, who is stepping down July 1 after CEO of the ISU Foundation. Smith was hired through The serving 10 years as dean. Mustillo joined the Notre Dame Registry, an organization that assists universities filling faculty in 2014, after serving seven years as a professor of interim roles. Smith previously served as vice president for sociology at Purdue University and six years on the faculty at university advancement and president and CEO of the the Duke University School of Medicine. She has served as foundation at Bowling Green State University. Also through chair of the Department of Sociology since 2016. The Registry, he served in an interim role, leading advancement at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for 11 ! Franklin College selects JJJoseph Joseph B.B.B. Hornett as vice months. president for finance and chief financial officer. He joins Franklin from the American Red Cross in Indianapolis, IN Government . . . where he currently serves as the chief operating officer for the ! In Request for Proposal 18-002, the Indiana Commission Indiana region. Hornett has previously worked for the for Higher Education seeks a vendor for administrative Purdue Research Foundation, the Archdiocese of services for the Indiana Graduate Medical Education Board. Indianapolis, and the former Indiana Bell Telephone The GME Board awards grants to entities to support the Company. development and expansion of graduate medical residency programs. The selected vendor will manage and monitor ! AAAmandaAmanda Gage Stonecipher ascends to the post of Indiana grants awarded by the Board and work with ICHE staff in University Southeast vice chancellor for enrollment assisting with the business of the Board, including attending management and student affairs. She most recently served as Board meetings, drafting meeting minutes, and providing assistant vice chancellor for retention and student services grantee progress reports. The RFP due date is March 19. The and as the director of housing and residence life. successful vendor will tentatively be selected by April 27.

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! The Senate voted 50-0 to approve House Bill 1074, the Q The Indiana Chamber of Commerce questioned how the annual agency bill emanating from the Indiana Commission new cabinet-level entity would interface with the existing State for Higher Education. Workforce Innovation Council (SWIC). Q The bill includes language on Construction Managers as Q The proposed addition of a new layer of education Contractors added at the request of Purdue University and bureaucracy appears to stop short of the ambitious Kasich language from Ivy Tech Community College to streamline Administration bill introduced in Ohio to combine the K-12, the disposition of college real estate. HB 1074 would allows higher education, and workforce departments into a single ICHE to create a college-level 21st Century Scholars success cabinet-level agency called the Department of Learning and program; makes changes to the 21st Century Scholars award Achievement under the governor’s control. amounts for students who attend private, non-profit Q Some nursing advocates pushed back on the faculty institutions; amends the Primary Care Scholarship program flexibility, insisting that master’s degrees should be required to require one year of service for one year of financial and warning that this could jeopardize Ivy Tech’s nursing support; and amends the Workforce Ready Grant accreditation. The Senate expects to have a Second Reading requirements to allow students who do not meet the initial amendment to further tweak the nursing faculty provisions Satisfactory Academic Progress standard to qualify for the based on input from Ivy Tech and the Indiana State Nurses grant as long as they have been out of school for at least two Association. Look for the Second Reading amendment to years. specify that nurse training programs may use bachelor of science nurses to teach clinicals. ! House Bill 1419, the omnibus alcoholic beverage bill, as it passed out of the Senate Committee on Public Policy ! The House Committee on Ways and Means adopted an includes language on beer requested by the University of amendment to Senate Bill 242 changing the date that Ivy Notre Dame. Tech Community College may issue and sell bonds for the Kokomo campus renovation and addition and the Muncie ! The Senate Committee on Appropriations amended and campus renovation and addition. approved House Bill 1002 on Thursday. The bill now ! Senate Bill 50, a package addressing assorted workforce provides that the governor will appoint a secretary of development and career and technical education issues, workforce training; establishes the governor’s workforce advances out of the House Committee on Ways and Means cabinet consisting of 20 members; directs the cabinet to in an amended form. develop a career coaching system; creates an Employer Training Grant to provide reimbursement of up to $5,000 per Q The bill would establish a comprehensive review employee for training in six industry sectors that leads to a framework for state financial aid and workforce training credential (the program would immediately be funded with programs; create a governor’s workforce cabinet consisting of $10 million transferred from the CTE innovation fund; an 17 members; direct the new panel to create a career employer could receive a maximum of $50,000); allows the navigation and coaching system; requires all Indiana high Employer Training Grant to be used to reimburse employers schools to participate in the career coaching system; and up to $500 per employee who obtains a high school diploma require the Legislative Services Agency to review the 21st or its equivalent through a program organized or funded by Century Scholars and Frank O’Bannon scholarship programs. the employer; requires a review by the Legislative Services Agency of workforce programs; permits students in career IN Courts and Conduct . . . and technical education to voluntarily allow school to release ! The Indiana University Interfraternity Council imposes information to potential employers; expands eligibility for new restrictions on social activities, limiting chapters to three the Workforce Ready Grant to individuals as young as 18; social events with alcohol per week, and even those activities replaces the Ivy Tech Community College regional boards of come with special participation restrictions. trustees with campus-based boards; at the request of Ivy Tech, suspends for seven years the faculty qualification INDIANA EDUCATION INSIGHT © 2018 Hannah News Service, requirements put in place by the State Board of Nursing for Inc.. All rights reserved. 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