Indiana § 20-31-3-3 - Revising and updating academic standards
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§ 20-31-3-3. Revising and updating academic standards
Sec. 3. (a) The department shall revise and update academic standards:
(1) for each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12; and
(2) in each subject area listed in section 2 of this chapter;
at least once every six (6) years. This revision must occur on a cyclical basis.
(b) The department, in revising and updating academic standards under subsection (a), shall do the following:
(1) Consider the skills, knowledge, and practices:
(A) that are necessary to understand and utilize emerging technologies; and
(B) that may be rendered obsolete by emerging technologies.
(2) Consider for removal any academic standards that may be obsolete as a result of emerging technologies.
(3) Provide support to school corporations regarding the implementation of revised and updated academic standards that have an emerging technologies component.
(4) Consider integrating computer science standards into a subject area being revised.
(5) Consider integrating data literacy and data science standards into a subject area being revised.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-10.1-16-6.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.73-2011, SEC.17; P.L.168-2022, SEC.19; P.L.250-2023, SEC.33; P.L.150-2024, SEC.35; P.L.214-2025, SEC.166.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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