Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 20-25.7-4-7 - Operational autonomy; personnel decisions; collective bargaining; participation in retirement funds(a) The innovation network team shall have full operational autonomy to run the innovation network school as provided in the agreement described in section 5 of this chapter.(b) For any collective bargaining agreement under IC 20-29 entered into after July 1, 2015, a governing body is not bound by its collective bargaining agreement for employees of an innovation network school established under this chapter. Employees of an innovation network team may organize and create a separate bargaining unit to collectively bargain with the innovation network team under IC 20-29.(c) Individuals employed by an innovation network school are entitled to participate in either: (1) the state teachers' retirement fund established under IC 5-10.4; or(2) the public employees' retirement fund established under IC 5-10.3.Added by P.L. 214-2015, SEC. 2, eff. 5/7/2015.