by Indiana Coalition for Public Education | Jan 31, 2025 | 2025 Legislative Session, Legislative Alerts - 2025, Partisan School Boards
Legislative Alert: SB 287 – Partisan School Boards KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE Two years ago, our ICPE co- founder and author of Vic’s Statehouse Notes, Dr. Vic Smith, wrote about similar bills: “Making school boards partisan is a bad idea. It...
by Indiana Coalition for Public Education | Jan 31, 2025 | 2025 Legislative Session, Legislative Alerts - 2025
Legislative Alert: SB 403 – Charter school requirements SB 403: Charter school requirements ICPE has consistently called for a moratorium on diverting public funds into private hands. Private voucher schools and public, privately-run charter schools lack the...
by ICPE | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025 Legislative Session, Legislative Alerts - 2025
Legislative Alert: HB 1136 – Dissolving School Districts – Politicians’ Choice HB 1136: Politicians’ Choice Despite the mantra of “parent choice,” this bill would potentially eliminate public school parents’ choice in the Indianapolis Public...
by ICPE | Jan 17, 2025 | 2025 Legislative Session, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Alerts - 2025
Legislative Alert: HB 1002 – Various Education Matters & Deregulation Concerns UPDATE (as of 1/29/25): Thanks to your recent calls and emails on this bill, we are making it better. Language that is crossed out below has been amended out, but it is still...
by ICPE | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025 Legislative Session, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Alerts - 2025
Legislative Alert: SB 320 – A very good bill SB 320 Choice Scholarships ICPE believes that if you take public funds you should have to play by the same rules as public schools.Voucher schools do not have to show us where the money goes, and they do not have to...