by Shelley Clark | Feb 24, 2020 | Public Schools Week 2020
It’s Public Schools Week! This week is Public Schools Week! Let’s celebrate the great things happening in our public schools Every. Single. Day. Ways you can participate and show your support: 1) Use the Public Schools Week profile frame on Facebook:...
by Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer | Feb 23, 2020 | 2020 Legislative Session, Charter Schools, iLearn, Indiana Legislature, Innovation Schools, Privatization, Rally 2020, Rural Schools, School Funding, Standardized Testing, Teacher Pay, Urban Schools
“Hold Harmless?” Let’s Talk About Harm Last November, tens of thousands of us stood outside this statehouse with our signs and our songs, chanting “Red for Ed!” We stood alongside teachers from all across the state—but also alongside parents,...
by Marilyn Shank | Feb 22, 2020 | 2020 Legislative Session, Indiana Legislature
Action Alert – Call Or Email Before Monday Morning ICPE urges you to contact members of the House Education Committee before 8:30 a.m. Monday. Ask them to support Senate Bill 319, because it eliminates the requirement that teachers obtain 15 professional growth...
by Marilyn Shank | Feb 19, 2020 | 2020 Legislative Session, Indiana Legislature, Standardized Testing
CALLS TO ACTION Good news: Governor Holcomb signed Senate Bill 2 into law last week. It’s known as the “hold harmless” bill and recognizes that the first two years of ILEARN test results for the 2018-19 school year and the 2019-20 school year should NOT be used to...
by Marilyn Shank | Feb 11, 2020 | 2020 Legislative Session, ICPE News, Indiana Legislature, Rally 2020
Why we rally: Still red. Still for public ed. ICPE organized its first rally at the Statehouse in 2013 – just two years after ICPE was founded. One public education friend recently told me her young daughter was in a photo from our first rally. That child is now in...
