Blog & Statehouse Notes
This space serves as vital resource for educators, parents, and advocates dedicated to preserving and enhancing public education in Indiana. Through insightful articles, updates, and analysis, ICPE volunteers provide timely information on legislative actions, policy changes, and advocacy efforts impacting public schools. Here is where we delve into key educational issues, offering expert perspectives and actionable recommendations. We offer a detailed account of the ongoing legislative processes and decisions affecting Indiana’s public education system. We strive to empower stakeholders with the knowledge and tools necessary to support and defend public education.
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #380 – No supervision or accountability
In my most recent Statehouse Notes I told you that Senate Bill 255 is a stunning proposal to give control of education funding to parents. I deeply oppose this plan and urge you to oppose it as well. Senate Bill 255 is dead for this session, but Senator Mishler says...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #379 – Take a stand
Dear Friends, In yesterday’s Vic's Statehouse Notes I told you that Senate Bill 255 is a stunning proposal to give control of education funding to parents. I deeply oppose this plan and urge you to oppose it as well. Senate Bill 255 is dead for this session, but...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #378 – A radical experiment
Dear Friends, Please join us for a DAY OF ACTION AT THE STATEHOUSE ON PRESIDENTS DAY HERE'S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW: https://indianacoalitionforpubliced.org/2024/02/06/icpe-statehouse-day-of-action-unite-for-our-public-schools/ AND HERE'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT:...
ICPE Statehouse Day of Action: Unite for Our Public Schools
Mark your calendars for Presidents’ Day on Monday, February 19th and bring your friends and family to ICPE’s Day of Action. This legislative session has been a scary preview of what is to come next year when the legislature debates the budget and determines their...
Retention of third graders based on IREAD-3
For a legislative session that the supermajority promised would be short and sweet - and non controversial - we are finding some bills quite sour and we must yet again prepare to battle for our kids and the schools they deserve. Despite research to the contrary, the...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #377 – Not a good start
It's Not a Good Start for the Short Session Two Senate bills, SB 255 and SB 143, directly implement Milton Friedman’s plan to give school funding to parents and not to schools, abruptly ending the way public education in Indiana has been funded for over a century....
ICPE Legislative Priorities 2024
With the first round of vouchers for the 2023-2024 school year increasing by nearly 30%, Hoosier taxpayers have the right to demand accountability and transparency for those tax dollars. Why are private voucher schools not audited by the State Board of Accounts like...
2023 Annual ICPE Member Meeting: Let’s Get to Work
We were thrilled to have the energy of many new faces and the dedication of our old friends who filled the room at the H. Dean Evans Community Center in Washington Township last August. If you were unable to attend, you can view the video below or here is a link to...
ICPE Annual Meeting & Legislative Recap
There is always much to talk about at our ICPE Annual Meetings! We hope you can join us on the north side of Indianapolis at 2pm on August 26th. We will once again gather at 8550 Woodfield Crossing Blvd. 46240 (Washington Township Schools central office). Here's a...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #376 – The final budget is not always the final budget
Now we’ve learned that the final budget is not always the final budget. By most accounts, cries of agony by school superintendents to their Senators over low funding levels in the second year of the budget led Senate leaders to begin additional school funding...
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