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Vic’s Statehouse Notes #370 – A radical plan

Dear Friends, The Indiana Senate Education Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would freeze out community members, taxpayers and even state leaders from any influence over what the students of Indiana study. It would mark the end of state standards. Yes, you read...

Oppose SB 305 – In support of standards

After graduating from Arsenal Technical High School and earning an electrical engineering degree from Purdue, my dad started a business in 1959 to calibrate equipment to verify that the equipment met standards established by what is now the National Institute of...

Vic’s Statehouse Notes #369 – Threat to existence of public education

Dear Friends, We have until Wednesday, January 25, to convince Senate Education Committee members that Senate Bill 305 would fatally wound public education. The Threat to the Existence of our Community Public Schools Fifty years ago the economist Milton Friedman...

Vic’s Statehouse Notes #368

Dear Friends, ALL HANDS ON DECK! The Senate is throwing the big one at public education in the first education committee meeting. Today it was announced that Senate Bill 305, which carries the seeds to completely unravel and privatize public education in Indiana, will...

ICPE 2022 Legislative Scorecard

LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD REVEALS PRO-PUBLIC EDUCATION INDIANA LEGISLATORS Twenty-eight percent of the members of the Indiana House of Representatives voted to support public schools while only 16 percent of Indiana State Senators aligned with the Indiana Coalition for...

Who is funding my school board candidates?

[Note: a special thank you to Keri Miksza, chair of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education of Monroe County for her work on this post] How to research campaign funding for local school board elections Each county operates differently when it comes to making these...

Vic’s Statehouse Notes #367

Dear Friends, The threat to public education by Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) is clear. ESAs could be expanded to all students in the upcoming session of the Indiana General Assembly. Before the election, ask every candidate for the Indiana House or the...

They’re coming for your district: now what?

As a follow up to the information shared at our annual meeting, we will host an online training webinar for public education advocates on Wednesday, September 28th at 7pm. Register in advance here for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation...

South Bend Event: Consequences of School Choice

On Thursday, September 8th at 7pm, ICPE Board Member and Former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Jennifer McCormick, will be representing ICPE at a meeting we are co-sponsoring on Zoom with our public education advocate friends in South Bend. Rep....

ICPE’s All-Member Meeting: They’re Coming for Your School District

On Saturday August 20th we held our annual all-member meeting in Washington Township. It was a jam-packed agenda full of information to digest–some of which made many of us nauseous! We had around 50 people attend in person, and somewhere near 30 who were online via...