Blog & Statehouse Notes
This space serves as vital resource for those who are dedicated to preserving and enhancing public education in Indiana. Through insightful articles, updates, and analysis, ICPE provides timely information on legislative actions, policy changes, and advocacy efforts impacting Indiana’s public education system. We strive to empower stakeholders with the knowledge and tools necessary to support and defend public education.
The negative effects of competition and choice on public school students are structural and long-lasting
Voucher proponents believe school choice improves efficiency and elevates the neediest students, but do the statistics support that rationale? New research from Indiana University doctoral student Yusuf Canbolat examines how competition induced by school vouchers...
Enjoy the ICPE Annual Meeting all over again!
If you missed ICPE’s virtual annual meeting and 10th anniversary celebration on Aug. 21 – or if you’d like to experience it again, the recordings are now available. If you’d like to watch the entire program, choose this link. To watch the 10th anniversary section (10...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #357 ICPE Annual Meeting
Dear Friends, Our ICPE Annual Meeting this coming Saturday, August 21st will be a virtual meeting. You can join us from your home! We had high hopes of having an August in-person meeting as we did for years before the pandemic last year changed our plans. As you now...
ICPE Annual Meeting and 10th Anniversary
We really wanted to have the ICPE Annual Meeting in person this year. We didn’t get to see everyone last year, and this year is our 10th anniversary. We really wanted to celebrate. We were even going to order cupcakes! But….with the Delta variant on the rise and...
Wolf at the “Hoosier” Schoolhouse Door
Join us for an evening with authors and education policy experts, Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider, for a discussion on how their book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, applies to Indiana. From New Hampshire to Arizona and seemingly everywhere in between, schemes...
Indiana’s Choice – Film Panel Discussion
Join us for an evening discussing the documentary, "Indiana's Choice," with individuals involved in the making of the film. Indiana's Choice is a documentary that demonstrates how school choice policies in Indiana enable segregation of students and discrimination...
ICPE Monroe County: Are Indiana Legislators and IPS School Board Owned by Out-of-State Billionaires?
Want to understand why Indiana legislators pushed unpopular school privatization this session? Check out the latest blog post from our friends at ICPE Monroe County, who are asking all the right questions. Read the post and spend time with the chart assembled by ICPE...
Op Ed: The Leaky Bucket of Indiana K-12 School Funding
Marilyn Shank, Vice President of ICPE, wrote a letter to the editor which appeared in the print version of the Indianapolis Star on April 25, 2021. Every odd-numbered year when the Indiana General Assembly develops the state’s next budget, legislators often brag...
ICPE Response to Indiana’s Proposed Budget Bill
ICPE Response to Indiana’s Proposed Budget Bill April 21, 2021 The Indiana Coalition for Public Education (ICPE) welcomes the news that Indiana’s proposed budget will include $1.9 billion in new dollars for K-12 education over the biennium including a $1.03 billion...
It’s about accountability: Why we still oppose private school ESAs and voucher expansion
It is confounding to us as former State Superintendents of Public Instruction that legislators do not seem to value accountability. In this legislative session and past sessions, legislators are eager to divert more of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to various forms...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #356 – looming threats and flaws
Dear Friends, With only three days left in this General Assembly session, a dangerous threat to our state remains to be fixed. Education Scholarship Accounts are still in the budget bill, and the bill language does not protect Indiana from extremists, from criminals...
Will ESAs help our most vulnerable students?
Kristina Frey is an attorney who works as a juvenile public defender in Marion County. She testified on HB 1001 at the School Funding Subcommittee meeting on 3/25/21 specifically on ESAs and voucher expansion. She shared how these provsions can and will affect her...
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