Compulsory attendance
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 616 F. Supp. 2d 863 - H.S. v. Huntington County Community School Corp. (2009)
Most recently applied in John Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Co (April 2023)
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.17
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 4. Subject to the specific exceptions under this chapter, a student shall attend either:
(1) a public school that the student is entitled to attend under IC 20-26-11; or
(2) another school taught in the English language.
A person who knowingly or intentionally violates this section commits a Class C infraction. However, the violation is a Class C misdemeanor if the person has a prior unrelated adjudication or conviction for a violation of this section within the previous five (5) years.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.