Sec. 6. Except as provided in this chapter and notwithstanding any other law, a freeway school corporation or a freeway school may do the following during the contract period:
(1) Disregard the observance of any statute or rule that is listed in the contract.
(2) Lease school transportation equipment to others for nonschool use when the equipment is not in use for a school corporation purpose, if the lessee has not received a bid from a private entity to provide transportation equipment or services for the same purpose.
(3) Replace the budget and accounting system that is required by law with a budget or accounting system that is frequently used in the private business community. The state board of accounts may not go beyond the requirements imposed upon the state board of accounts by statute in reviewing the budget and accounting system used by a freeway school corporation or a freeway school.
(4) Establish a locally adopted assessment program to replace the assessment of students under the ISTEP program established under IC 20-32-5-15 (before its expiration on July 1, 2018), subject to the following:
(A) A locally adopted assessment program must be established by the governing body and approved by the department.
(B) A locally adopted assessment program may use a locally developed test or a nationally developed test.
(C) Results of assessments under a locally adopted assessment program are subject to the same reporting requirements as results under the ISTEP program (before its expiration on July 1, 2018).
(D) Each student who completes a locally adopted assessment program and the student's parent have the same rights to inspection and rescoring:
(i) for school years ending before July 1, 2018, as set forth in IC 20-32-5-9; and
(ii) for school years beginning after June 30, 2018, as set forth in IC 20-32-5.1.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-62-6.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.2-2006, SEC.135; P.L.242-2017, SEC.18; P.L.244-2017, SEC.53; P.L.140-2018, SEC.9.