by Dr. Vic Smith | Feb 19, 2024 | 2024 Legislative Session, Education Savings Accounts, Indiana Legislature, Legislative Priorities, Privatization, School Funding, State Budget, Statehouse Notes
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...
by Vic Smith, Co-Founder ICPE | Feb 12, 2024 | 2024 Legislative Session, Education Savings Accounts, Get Involved, Indiana Legislature, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Priorities, Privatization, School Funding, State Budget, Statehouse Day of Action, Vouchers
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:...
by Dr. Vic Smith | Apr 29, 2023 | 2023 Legislative Session, Indiana Legislature, IPS, Privatization, School Funding, State Budget, Statehouse Notes
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...
by ICPE | Apr 29, 2023 | #VotePublicEd, 2023 Legislative Session, Career Scholarship Accounts, Charter Schools, CTE Funding, Education Savings Accounts, Get Involved, ICPE News, Indiana Legislature, Innovation Schools, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Priorities, Privatization, Rural Schools, School Funding, State Budget, Suburban Schools, Teacher Pay, Urban Schools, Vouchers, Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Sine die – the session has ended Sine Die. The session has ended. We wonder, yet again, what it will take for Indiana’s citizens to see how the attack on public schools, the Common Good, will affect our children for decades to come. The supermajority will crow...
by Dr. Vic Smith, ICPE Founder & Board Member | Apr 27, 2023 | #VotePublicEd, 2023 Legislative Session, Career Scholarship Accounts, Charter Schools, CTE Funding, Education Savings Accounts, ICPE News, Indiana Legislature, Innovation Schools, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Priorities, Privatization, Rural Schools, School Funding, State Budget, Statehouse Notes, Suburban Schools, Teacher Pay, Urban Schools, Vouchers, Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #375 – Tremendous disappointments for traditional public schools Dear Friends, The final budget unveiled Wednesday carries bad news for public education in Indiana. It adds 6% in the first year and only 2% in the second year for...
by Marilyn Shank, ICPE Vice President & Board Member | Apr 27, 2023 | 2023 Legislative Session, Career Scholarship Accounts, CTE Funding, Indiana Legislature, Legislative Alerts, Legislative Priorities, Privatization, State Budget
CTE is a gem that should not be shelved Career & Technology Education (CTE) in Indiana doesn’t deserve what may have happened to it in the state budget. CTE leaders thought it was just an inadvertent oversight that its funding mechanism was left out of the budget...
