Sec. 6.5. (a) Notwithstanding this chapter, a school corporation shall accept a transferring student who does not have legal settlement in the school corporation if:
(1) the student's parent is a current employee of the transferee school corporation with an annual salary of at least:
(A) eight thousand dollars ($8,000); or
(B) three thousand dollars ($3,000) earned due to being included as an employee in the extracurricular portion of the transferee school corporation's current collective bargaining agreement;
(2) the student's parent currently resides in Indiana; and
(3) the transferee school corporation has the capacity to accept the student.
(b) If the number of students who request to transfer to a transferee school corporation under this section causes the school corporation to exceed the school corporation's maximum student capacity, the governing body shall determine which students will be admitted as transfer students by random drawing in a public meeting. However, the governing body of a school corporation located in a county with a consolidated city shall determine which students will be admitted by using a publicly verifiable random selection process.
(c) Notwithstanding this chapter and IC 20-43, if a school corporation has adopted a policy of not accepting the transfer of any student who does not have legal settlement within the school corporation, the school corporation may not enroll and may not report for purposes of state tuition support a student under this section whose parent does not meet the requirements described in subsection (a).
As added by P.L.17-2015, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.250-2017, SEC.29; P.L.241-2019, SEC.1; P.L.155-2020, SEC.7.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 26. School Corporations: General Administrative Provisions
Chapter 11. Legal Settlement and Transfer of Students; Transfer Tuition
20-26-11-0.2. Application of Certain Amendments to Prior Law
20-26-11-1. "Residence", "Resides", and Comparable Terms
20-26-11-2.5. Election to Have Legal Settlement
20-26-11-3. Forms Concerning Legal Settlement
20-26-11-4. Student Emancipation
20-26-11-5. Transfer at Request of Parent or Student; Approval; Appeal
20-26-11-6.5. Transfers of Children of School Corporation Employees
20-26-11-6.7. Transfer Agreements; School Corporation and Nonpublic School
20-26-11-7. Transfers; Students With Disabilities
20-26-11-9. Notice of Legal Settlement and Placement
20-26-11-10. Tuition for Children of Certain State Employees and Foreign Exchange Students
20-26-11-11. Tuition for Suspended, Expelled, or Excluded Emotionally Disturbed Students
20-26-11-12. Interstate Transfers
20-26-11-13. Determination of Transfer Tuition
20-26-11-14. Estimated Transfer Tuition Payments; Statements of Amount; Method of Payment
20-26-11-15. Determination by State Board
20-26-11-16. Rules of Implementation and Enforcement; Award to Prevailing School Corporation
20-26-11-17. Tuition Support Reporting Requirements
20-26-11-18. Joint Liability of Health Care Facility or Child Care Institution for Transfer Tuition
20-26-11-30. School Attendance in Former School Corporation
20-26-11-31. State Tuition Support for Certain Students
20-26-11-33. Acceptance of Nonresident Students Into Alternative Education Programs