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Plan: Indiana PYs 2016-2017
Unified Plan U

Section: Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities

Narrative: c. 5.

Published
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c. 5. Include the State Definition, as Defined in Law, for Not Attending School and Attending School as Specified in WIOA Section 129(a)(1)(b)(i) and Section 129(a)(1)(c)(i). if State Law Does Not Define “not Attending School” or “attending School” Indicate That is the Case.

Current Narrative:

Indiana’s definitions are as follows:

  • Not attending school; high school dropout: The individual is no longer attending any school and has not received a secondary school diploma or its equivalent.
  • Not attending school; high school graduate: The individual is not attending any school and has received either a secondary school diploma or its equivalent.
  • Enrollment in adult education, Job Corps or YouthBuild is “not attending school.”

o Indiana’s Compulsory School Attendance age, per Indiana Code 20-33-2-6, begins the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven (7) years of age, and continues until the date on which the student: (1) graduates, (2) becomes 18 years of age, or (3) becomes 16 years of age but is less 18 years of age and the requirements concerning an exit interview are met enabling the student to withdraw from school before graduation.

  • Attending school means to be physically present: (1) in a school; or (2) at another location where the school’s educational program in which a person is enrolled is being conducted; during regular school hours on a day in which the educational program in which the person is enrolled is being offered. See Indiana Code 20-33-2-3.2.
  • Indiana also defines a School Year as “at least one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days.” See Indiana Code 20-30-2-3. Not later than June 15 of each school year, the superintendent of each school corporation shall certify to the department the number of student instructional days conducted during that school year. While there may be extenuating circumstances that a school district may request a waiver of these 180 days, which could include weather related cancellations, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development would consider 180 student instructional days as the “school year.”

  • For the purposes of out-of-school youth eligibility calculations, a “school calendar quarter” would be defined as 45 student instructional days. Weekends, holidays or cancelled days in which school was closed would not count towards the 45 student instructional days. Some school corporations may define these 45 days as a “semester,” but calculations for accuracy of total instructional days should still be verified by the case manager at the time of application and enrollment.