Summary

Indiana HB 1427 (Open States or Indiana Legislature) addresses a wide variety of education matters, most significantly, pausing the state’s implementation of the Common Core standards and assessments and requiring changes to the A-F school grade models. It also updates language describing curricular materials and abolishes numerous programs, some technology-related.

Legislative Analysis

HB 1427 updates the language describing curricular materials by replacing the word “textbook” with the phrase “curricular materials” throughout the Indiana Code. This is a more accurate description for contemporary educational resources, which come in a wide variety of formats, and increasingly are electronic rather than paper-based.

This legislation also abolishes several programs and entities, including:

• Technology Apprenticeship Grant Program
• Corporation for Educational Technology
• Technology Preparation Task Force
• Projects on Innovative Education
• Twenty-first Century Schools Pilot Program
• Innovative Testing Methods Pilot Program

Legislative History

Detailed Vote History: Legiscan |  Open States

Approved by Governor Mike Pence on 5/11/2013