Sec. 15. (a) The board shall prepare an annual report covering the previous school year or collective bargaining period that includes at least the information described in subsection (b). Before November 15 each year, the board shall:

(1) submit the report to the budget committee, department of education, state board, and legislative council in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6; and

(2) publish the report on the state's interactive and searchable Internet web site containing local government information (the Indiana gateway for governmental units).

(b) The report must cover at least the following information:

(1) The total number of full-time public school teachers and the number of nonteaching full-time district level administrators.

(2) The average tenure of all full-time public school teachers.

(3) The number of first-year, full-time teachers hired during the previous calendar year.

(4) The number of full-time teachers who retired during the interval between the immediately preceding collective bargaining period and the previous calendar year's collective bargaining period.

(5) The overall average salary of nonteaching full-time district level administrators.

(6) The overall average salary of full-time public school teachers.

(7) The statewide average total compensation of full-time public school teachers, the statewide average daily teacher salary rate, and the statewide average annual teacher contract days.

(8) The statewide average total compensation of full-time public school administrators, the statewide average daily nonteaching, full-time, district level administrator salary rate, and the statewide average annual administrator contract days.

(9) The average salary and total compensation of full-time public school teachers for each school corporation.

(10) The average salary and total compensation of nonteaching, full-time district level administrators, including separately the superintendent, for each school corporation.

(11) The minimum full-time public school teacher salary.

(12) The maximum full-time public school teacher salary.

(13) The minimum nonteaching full-time district level administrative salary.

(14) The maximum nonteaching full-time district level administrative salary.

(15) The number of full-time public school teachers earning a salary under the statewide average.

(16) The number of full-time public school teachers earning a salary in excess of the statewide average.

(17) For each school corporation, the average salary paid to full-time public school teachers in each of the following tenure benchmarks:

(A) First year.

(B) Fifth year.

(C) Tenth year.

(D) Fifteenth year.

(E) Twentieth year.

(F) Twenty-fifth year.

(G) Thirty (30) or more years of service.

(18) For each school corporation, the nominal dollar figures for subdivisions (5), (6), (11), (12), (13), (14), and (17) in nationally recognized, open-source, state-specific cost of living index-adjusted dollars to compare to the figures described in subdivision (19).

(19) Comparative data on overall full-time public school teacher salary averages and by each of the tenure benchmarks listed in subdivision (17) in both nominal dollars and nationally recognized, open-source, state-specific cost of living index-adjusted dollars for each of the following states:

(A) Illinois.

(B) Kentucky.

(C) Michigan.

(D) Ohio.

(E) Wisconsin.

(20) The total number of full-time teachers retained from the previous year.

(21) The total number of newly hired teachers with previous work experience in teaching.

(22) The total number of teaching candidates who:

(A) are currently enrolled in a teacher preparation program; or

(B) have recently completed a teacher preparation program.

(23) The increase or decrease in kindergarten through grade 12 student enrollments.

(24) The total number of teachers in Indiana.

(25) The teacher workforce growth.

(26) The administrator workforce growth.

As used in this subsection, total compensation includes the monetary value of salary, wages, bonuses, stipends, supplemental payments, commissions, employment benefits, and any other form of remuneration paid for personal services.

(c) The board may require schools to submit any school corporation specific information needed to complete the report. Parties to a collective bargaining agreement shall comply with the board's requests for information necessary to complete the report.

As added by P.L.161-2019, SEC.2.