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Summary HB 1002

Allows charter schools to opt in to the state health insurance plans. Establishes the charter school board as a statewide sponsor of charter schools. Adds the executive of a second-class city and nonproprietary private colleges and university as eligible charter school sponsors. Requires the state board of education to establish procedures to monitor all charter school sponsors in Indiana. Adds: (1) student academic growth; (2) financial performance and stability; and (3) board performance and stewardship; to the list of items to be included in a charter school's charter. Requires uniform and consistent transfer of credits for students who transfer from a charter school to another public school. Stipulates that a teacher in a conversion charter school may be an employee of the charter school or the school corporation as determined in a charter school's charter. Sets out the conditions, accounting process, and reporting procedures for a charter school sponsor concerning the collection of fees from its sponsored charter schools. Requires the department of education to establish a charter school on the department's Internet web site. Allows charter schools to lease or purchase unused or underutilized school buildings owned by school corporations. Provides for part of a school corporation's transportation fund levy to be distributed to charter schools, unless the school corporation provides transportation to charter school students. Establishes the charter school facilities aid program and the charter school facilities revolving loan program. Cancels interest payments on advances made to charter schools from the common school fund. Provides that if a governing body determines that a severance payment is appropriate for an administrator, the amount of state funding used in the payment may not exceed an amount equal to one year's salary for the administrator. Makes conforming changes. Changes the procedure for converting a public school into a charter school. Repeals provisions concerning the number of charter schools an executive of a consolidated city may sponsor and that include teachers in a conversion charter school in the school corporation's bargaining unit.

http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/IN/HB1002