INDIANAPOLIS | The Indiana House Education Committee voted 8-0 Thursday to advance legislation that would set up a pilot program for at-risk students sought by East Chicago parents.
House Bill 1606, sponsored by state Rep. Earl Harris, D-East Chicago, would create a pilot program to test the Comer School Development Program.
"The Comer process has been going for a while, and I think it exists in 600 school systems in 21 states," Harris said. "The mission lends to the whole community getting involved in the educational process. That means from the chamber of commerce to your higher ed universities and your school system itself. I look at it as a village concept."
The legislation, which advances to the full House, would open the pilot program to urban school districts and those in which a majority of the students fall below the poverty line or at least 10 percent of teachers hold limited licenses or are teaching outside their subject disciplines.
For more about the Comer School Development Program, visit http://www.med.yale.edu/comer/index.html
