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Bill would let accredited nonpublic schools form police departments, access STEM grants and appeal scholarship denials
Summary
Representative Bob Behning presented House Bill 1515 to the Senate Education and Career Development Committee to allow accredited nonpublic schools to form police departments, access STEM teacher recruitment grants and principal leadership programs, and to appeal certain choice‑scholarship determinations.
Representative Bob Behning presented House Bill 1515 to the Senate Education and Career Development Committee as a package of measures aimed at expanding optional programs and services to accredited nonpublic schools.
Behning said the bill would allow accredited nonpublic schools to create school police departments under the same statutory protocols now available to school corporations and charter schools and would make nonpublic schools eligible for STEM teacher recruitment grants and for seats in the Indiana Principal Leadership Institute. He described the measures as optional and locally financed: "There's approximately 300 non pubs...Most of them are not gonna create their own" police departments, he said, adding the schools…
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