2021 Legislative Priorities

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Workforce and Education

WORKFORCE

Veteran Re-entry: 通过消除重复的要求，增加退伍军人的就业机会，加快军事训练人员获得同等民用执照的程序

支持为国家招募军事人员的持续努力，以满足地区雇主的劳动力需求

Ex-Offender Re-entry: 支持促进前罪犯重新融入劳动力和经济的政策，包括:

Minimizing business liability and increasing incentives to hire ex-offenders

Increasing job training and skills enhancement opportunities
- Expanding pre-release entrepreneurship education and training
- 支持为经过验证的过渡性就业模式和包括获得住房和交通在内的一揽子服务提供资金

Social Determinants of Health: Increase strategic investments in public health, prevention, and social determinants to support talent-based economic development. 国家继续努力收集关于健康的社会决定因素和政府福利领取者未满足的需求的数据

HIGHER EDUCATION

Reverse Credit: 支持允许特定课程学分在印第安纳州认可的两年制学校和其他国家支持的学院和大学之间相互转换和互惠，以鼓励在全州范围内获得高等教育认证和学位

21^st Century Scholars: 加强外联和综合服务，评估项目的可持续筹资机制, such as the 21^st Century Scholars program, 为了增加那些有经济需要的人进入两年制和四年制学院和大学的机会和完成率

EDUCATION

Teacher Training: 与学校系统领导合作，要求并资助印第安纳州的所有教师完成文化能力和隐性偏见培训, without creating additional burdens or unfunded mandates

Achievement Gap & Disciplinary Policies: Support comprehensive, 对导致不公平结果的种族成就差距和纪律政策进行持续审查

Early Childhood Education: Ensure children entering primary (K-12) education are academically, socially and emotionally prepared for success through high-quality, publicly-funded Pre-K programs; increased public investments should focus on those in financial need and support statewide access, while protecting funding and service levels in high-demand, high-capacity ‘pilot’ counties. Further, enact mandatory, fully-funded, full-day kindergarten by age 5 to create a consistent, quality early education pathway

School Safety & Mental Health: 允许公立学校资金用于学校资源官员和学校安全公投资金用于雇用心理健康项目的工作人员

STEM: Support dedicated funding and policies to deploy high-quality classroom science, technology, 工程和数学(STEM)课程以及为教育工作者提供的以STEM为重点的专业发展. Specifically, 强调K-12级的计算机科学和工程课程，为毕业生在高要求的STEM领域的大学和职业机会做好准备

探索创造激励措施，以留住最近获得stem学位的个人，并承诺在该州居住5年, with an emphasis on those graduates who enter the teaching profession.

High school Career Counselors:

Decrease the student-to-counselor ratio, 要求学校辅导员定期进行专业发展，并确保学术课程与学生期望的职业道路保持一致

探索修改咨询师执照，以区分职业咨询与社会/情感咨询

Require school counselors to advise students in middle school (6^th, 7^th and 8^th grades) of their eligibility to enroll in various state financial aid programs

Required FAFSA Completion通过将完成FAFSA或积极选择退出作为高中毕业的要求，支持进入高等教育机构

Autonomy: 为学区提供灵活性，以根据高需求和专业学科领域支付教师工资. 授权地方教育官员作出影响个别学校表现的行政和结构决定, including the option to extend school hours, merit pay options, 为新教师提供自愿性的退休福利选择，例如定额供款计划

Operational Efficiency & Facilities: Support school corporation’s operational efficiency efforts by creating a 5-year, 学校法人如符合下列条件，可获续期豁免“美元法”:

Proven willingness and ability to partner with charter schools as demonstrated by:
- 20%的学校法人学生就读于创新网络学校或创新网络特许学校
- 将地区运营公投资金公平分配给所有创新网络学校, 包括lea内创新网络学校和lea外创新网络特许学校

经独立分析和验证，证明区内设施产能过剩

Commitment to address operational efficiencies as demonstrated by:
- 就现时及未来人口/入学人数预测进行策略性设施优化研究
- 通过战略性处置先前受美元法约束的物业，实施战略运营效率计划

School Funding:

Count Day: 支持在k-12基金公式中纳入第二个计算日期，以确保学校能够充分适应整个学年不断变化的学生人数

Complexity Index: 通过向教育有困难学生的学校分配足够的资源，保护复杂性指数作为改善学校成绩的重要工具
- 通过考虑有创伤史的学生群体(以ACE分数衡量)来准确反映复杂性。, English as Second Language students, and those with developmental difficulties
- Eliminate racial gaps in per pupil funding allocation, 并解决2020年印第安纳州学校资金报告的调查结果. Fairbanks Foundation