The following link is a public law 221 fact sheet. Public Law 221 was passed by the Indiana General Assembly in 1999.

http://www.doe.in.gov/pl221/2008/PL221_Fact_Sheet.pdf


In 1999, the Indiana General Assembly passed Public Law 221, known as the “school accountability law,” to reflect the education-reform mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Both the state and federal law allow for states to intervene in failing schools, removing them from control of local school districts.
A chronically failing school is defined as one that has been placed on academic probation for six years in a row for failing to make progress on student test scores.
Proposed rules now in front of the Indiana State Board of Education detail procedures for the takeover of those failing schools.
Among the options:
◆ Closing the low-performing school.
◆ Merging it with a nearby higher-performing school.
◆ Turning it into a charter school and/or bringing in an outside manager to run the school.
An outside manager would not be required to bargain collectively with school employees. Less drastic measures could be taken as well, including developing a plan that would target specific teachers and administrators or changing school procedures.

The following link takes you a draft from the IDOE concerning possible initiation of a rule-making process to initiate the technical assistance and intervention provisions under IC-20-31-9 (Public Law 221).
www.doe.in.gov/super/2010/07-july/072310/documents/tat.pdf

The direct legislative link to IC-20-31-9:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title20/ar31/ch9.html

And the Indiana code on performance based accrediation:
http://www.ai.org/legislative/ic/code/title20/ar31/ch4.html

All of public law 221 works in conjunction with federal laws, No Child Left Behind:
http://find.ed.gov/search?client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&q=no+child+left+behind