Status of Bills Advocated by Governor Daniels

I have listed below the major education-related topics directly advocated by Daniels in his State of the State address and the bills that those topics manifested into.  I will discuss whether or not each bill has died or progressed through one or both bodies of the General Assembly.

1. Teachers should earn tenure by proving their ability to help kids learn - and not simply through seniority (SB 001).  PASSED SENATE 2/22/11 - CURRENTLY PROGRESSING THROUGH HOUSE.
2. Students who complete high school one year early should be permitted to apply the funding that would have been used on their fourth year of high school toward the tuition of a post-secondary institution (SB 497).  PASSED SENATE 2/22/11 - CURRENTLY PROGRESSING THROUGH HOUSE.  
3. Charter schools should have the right to utilize vacant public school buildings if they are in need of room for expansion (SB 446).  PASSED SENATE 2/14/11 - CURRENTLY PROGRESSING THROUGH HOUSE.
4. Parents should be allowed to choose where to send their children to school - even if it means allowing the use of their child's state funding in a non-government school (SB 496/HB 1250).  SB 496 PASSED 2/22/11 - CURRENTLY PROGRESSING THROUGH HOUSE.  HB 1250 HAS STALLED.