BOURBON – Two recent Indiana legislative bills  drawing attention were brought up during the Triton School Board meeting Monday.  
The first bill Superintendent Jeremy Riffle brought up Monday was regarded literacy licensures for teachers.
The bill expanded a requirement that all elementary and special education teachers who are renewing their licenses earn a literacy endorsement, according to Chalkbeat. Under the law, teachers renewing their licenses must earn an Early Literacy Endorsement by 2027. They can do so through a third-party professional development program that’s free through 2025. They will also receive a $1,200 stipend for completing this training.
Monday, Riffle said, “The state did a pretty poor job of rolling this out.”
Representatives from Triton had the opportunity to meet with three legislatures in May to share concerns.
The Legislature passed the bill and the Indiana Department of Education “was then given the opportunity to roll that out. The way that has happened has created a lot of frustration as far as timelines and to pay for that. The content is good. The new information was good. The professional development, but yet the timeline in order to do that to get paid” and to keep their license drew concerns.
The second bill Riffle brought up is Senate Bill 185, which “requires each school corporation and charter school to: (1) adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that governs student use of a wireless communication device; and (2) publish the policy on the school corporation's or charter school's website,” according the Indiana General Assembly website.
Riffle said, as an administration team, Triton will continue to look at the pros and cons of cell phone usage in the high school.
A rumor of banning cell phones is just that, Riffle said. He said the school corporation will keep parents and students up to date as Triton draws closer to a solution to creating a cell phone policy that Triton administration thinks is best for the school corporation.
In other business, the board:
• Approved the final bond resolution and a resolution accepting amended and restated post issuance procedures.
In April, the board approved obtaining $1.85 million in general obligation bonds to fund building projects. Some of the things on Triton’s list of possible projects include auditorium railing in the performing arts center, tennis court crack fills, possibly adding a baseball or softball field, high school furniture replacement, possible risers, cabinets in the elementary school, WiFi upgrades and bringing the high school fire system into one system instead of two.
• Learned high school graduation is at 2 p.m. June 2.
• Approved the resignations of Amber Kreft as an elementary cafeteria worker, Casey Yarbrough as a pre-K instructional assistant, Abby Dreibelbis as an elementary instructional assistant, Brandon Young as the junior high baseball head coach, Paul Williams as the junior high baseball assistant coach, Adam Heckaman as the junior high robotics coach, Tori Kistler as the junior high cheer coach and junior-senior high instructional assistant and Linzi Ousley as a part-time corporation nurse.
• Approved hirings including Matt Arvesen as the junior high baseball head coach, Riley Linville as the junior high baseball assistant coach, Bethany Riffle as an elementary part-time cook, Kathy Anglemyer as an elementary cafeteria aide, David Cook as the junior-senior high English/language arts teacher, Lilee Stetzle as a substitute teacher, Brayden Cunningham as a junior high assistant football coach and Blake Hoffer as a volunteer assistant wrestling coach.