Blog & Statehouse Notes
2023 Legislative Update – The Sucker Punch
2023 Legislative Update We’re well into the 2023 legislative session, and some of us are asking: Do our legislators understand that public schools* are essential infrastructure in communities across Indiana—rural, urban, and suburban? If so, why do they keep moving...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #372
Dear Friends, Are extremist neo-Nazi parents going to teach hate to their students in Indiana home schools funded by you, the taxpayer? Senate Bill 305 would allow every parent (there are no funding limits in the current bill) to sign up online for an Education...
Meet us at the Statehouse Presidents Day!
Do you remember your first rally or day of action at the Statehouse to support your public schools? Or maybe next Monday will be your first Statehouse experience. There is so much energy when we are all there together. You get to see people you’ve heard of but never...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #371 – Partisan School Boards
Breaking long Hoosier traditions, Senate Bill 188 would change school boards from non-partisan to partisan. It’s time to contact Senators before the bill is heard on Monday to express your strong opposition to this damaging change to our public schools. Making school...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #370 – A radical plan
Dear Friends, The Indiana Senate Education Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would freeze out community members, taxpayers and even state leaders from any influence over what the students of Indiana study. It would mark the end of state standards. Yes, you read...
Oppose SB 305 – In support of standards
After graduating from Arsenal Technical High School and earning an electrical engineering degree from Purdue, my dad started a business in 1959 to calibrate equipment to verify that the equipment met standards established by what is now the National Institute of...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #369 – Threat to existence of public education
Dear Friends, We have until Wednesday, January 25, to convince Senate Education Committee members that Senate Bill 305 would fatally wound public education. The Threat to the Existence of our Community Public Schools Fifty years ago the economist Milton Friedman...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #368
Dear Friends, ALL HANDS ON DECK! The Senate is throwing the big one at public education in the first education committee meeting. Today it was announced that Senate Bill 305, which carries the seeds to completely unravel and privatize public education in Indiana, will...
ICPE 2022 Legislative Scorecard
LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD REVEALS PRO-PUBLIC EDUCATION INDIANA LEGISLATORS Twenty-eight percent of the members of the Indiana House of Representatives voted to support public schools while only 16 percent of Indiana State Senators aligned with the Indiana Coalition for...
Who is funding my school board candidates?
[Note: a special thank you to Keri Miksza, chair of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education of Monroe County for her work on this post] How to research campaign funding for local school board elections Each county operates differently when it comes to making these...
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