Blog & Statehouse Notes
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...
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 about historic funding in this budget....
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 tuition support, low marks in our current inflation. Sadly, the enormous expansion of private school...
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 while changes were moving quickly and...
Suckerpunched! A horrible day for Indiana K-12 public education with losses across the board
NOW IS THE FINAL TIME TO CALL ALL INDIANA LEGISLATORS: Senators: (800) 382-9467 House Democrats: (800) 382-9842 House Republicans(800) 382-9841 As we always say, a budget reflects your priorities. For those who believed that the Senate was signaling some kind of...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #374 – Education budget analysis
Dear Friends, The Indiana Senate, led by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Ryan Mishler, unveiled its proposed budget on April 13 and passed it on April 18, by a vote of 40-10. The Senate budget is more favorable to public education than is the House budget on two...
It’s all just numbers until it’s your school district’s funding
Although the “average” public school funding increase in the Republican version of the budget being discussed tomorrow (March 16) is 5%, the increased funding for Fiscal Year 2024 can be anywhere between a high of 18.9% all the way down to less than 1% depending on...
Five years of vouchers – mapped by district
Every Indiana public school is losing money because of vouchers. Even if no students leave your school district to use a voucher, even if you don’t have any voucher-accepting schools in your small or rural school district, your school district still loses money due to...
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