Ind. Code § 20-28-9-26
Minimum teacher salary threshold; notice; official minutes; posting
Redline — January 1, 2023 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2023
Sec. 26. (a) For each school year beginning after June 30, 2022, if a school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for each full-time teacher, the school corporation shall submit a report to the department explaining the school corporation's inability to meet the minimum threshold requirement.
Sec. 26. (a) For each school year beginning after June 30, 2025, if a school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) for each full-time teacher, the school corporation and the department must comply with the requirements of subsections (b) through (d).
(b) A report submitted under this section must include an explanation of the financial challenges, with detailed data, that preclude the school corporation from meeting the minimum salary threshold required under subsection (a). The report must also describe the cost saving measures taken by the school corporation in attempting to meet the minimum salary threshold required under subsection (a).
(b) For each state fiscal year that a school corporation fails to meet the minimum salary requirements for full-time teachers under subsection (a), the department shall submit in both a written and an electronic format a notice to the school corporation's:
(1) superintendent;
(2) school business officer; and
(3) governing body;
that the school corporation failed to meet the requirements set forth in subsection (a) for the applicable state fiscal year.
(c) If a school corporation's governing body receives a notice from the department under subsection (b), the school corporation shall do the following:
(1) Publicly acknowledge receipt of the notice from the department at the governing body's next public meeting.
(2) Enter into the governing body's official minutes for the meeting described in subdivision (1) acknowledgment of the notice.
(3) Not later than thirty (30) days after the meeting described in subdivision (1), publish on the school corporation's website:
(A) the department's notice; and
(B) any relevant individual reports prepared by the department.
(d) If the department determines a school corporation that received one (1) or more notices from the department under subsection (b) has met the minimum salary requirements required under subsection (a) for a subsequent state fiscal year, the school corporation may remove from the school corporation's website any:
(1) notices the school corporation received under subsection (b); and
(2) relevant individual reports prepared by the department under subsection (c)(3).
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