Blog & Statehouse Notes
ICPE Statehouse Day of Action: Unite for Our Public Schools
Mark your calendars for Presidents’ Day on Monday, February 19th and bring your friends and family to ICPE’s Day of Action. This legislative session has been a scary preview of what is to come next year when the legislature debates the budget and determines their...
Retention of third graders based on IREAD-3
For a legislative session that the supermajority promised would be short and sweet - and non controversial - we are finding some bills quite sour and we must yet again prepare to battle for our kids and the schools they deserve. Despite research to the contrary, the...
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #377 – Not a good start
It's Not a Good Start for the Short Session Two Senate bills, SB 255 and SB 143, directly implement Milton Friedman’s plan to give school funding to parents and not to schools, abruptly ending the way public education in Indiana has been funded for over a century....
ICPE Legislative Priorities 2024
With the first round of vouchers for the 2023-2024 school year increasing by nearly 30%, Hoosier taxpayers have the right to demand accountability and transparency for those tax dollars. Why are private voucher schools not audited by the State Board of Accounts like...
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...
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