Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 20-19-2-11
Affected: IC 20-19-2-11; IC 20-29-2-12
Sec. 3.
The applications described in section 2(a) of this rule must
include the following information:
(1)
Demographic data on the school and the community in which the school is located
including any social and economic characteristics that contribute to unique
qualities of the school and its community.
(2) A description of each of the following:
(A) The events or activities that the school
has engaged in and intends to engage in to promote its school restructuring
program.
(B) The degree of
participation in the school restructuring program by the various principal
parties including the following:
(i)
Teachers.
(ii) The governing body
of the school corporation.
(iii)
Parents.
(iv) The business
community.
(C) The
vision that the applicant has for the restructured school, including the
following:
(i) Short term and long term
goals.
(ii) Changes in curriculum
and instruction.
(D)
Procedures the school will use to waive rules and to seek a waiver of
statutes.
(E) Professional
development activities that will be conducted by the school to promote school
restructuring.
(F) Procedures and
methods that the school will use to evaluate its school restructuring program
and report the results of the evaluation to the following:
(i) Parents.
(ii) The community.
(iii) The state board of education.
(G) The manner in which individual
student progress will be measured and reported to parents.
(3) Evidence of the following:
(A) The cooperation and support of the
principal parties cited in subdivision (2)(A), including the exclusive
representative as defined in IC 20-29-2-9, for engaging in the school
restructuring program.
(B) The
commitment to increasing family involvement in the school.
(4) A description of the school's plan for
admission of students who do not reside in the school's attendance area but who
have legal settlement within the school corporation, unless
inapplicable.
(5) A statement
indicating whether the school corporation, on behalf of its applicant schools,
or the applicant nonpublic school intends to:
(A) adopt the six (6) national education
goals adopted by the national governor's association in February
1990;
(B) establish a
community-wide strategy for achieving the national goals;
(C) develop a progress report for measuring
each school's progress in achieving the national goals; and
(D) support experimental schools.
(6) If the school intends to do
the things listed in subdivision (5), a description of the types of activities
the school expects to conduct and the methods the school plans to employ to
realize those intentions.
(7)
Preliminary budget expectations.
(8) Any other information required by the
state board in the application.
