Indiana senator eyes 2025 for ‘school choice’ overhaul

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6 thoughts on “Indiana senator eyes 2025 for ‘school choice’ overhaul

  1. Isn’t one of the key factors to school funding the number of students in public schools? If so, then doesn’t this bill create a spiral to basically defund public schools by incentivizing people to leave them? The more people that leave, the less funding.

    Unless something seriously changes in how education is funded, this bill seems like a move to defund education, not to help education.

    1. Studies show that parents that were already paying for private schools are one of the major participants in “universal school choice”, thereby funneling tax dollars to parents that had already decided they could afford private schools, and YES, shrinking the state pot of money that went to public schools, especially those in rural areas where there is no school choice!

      I’m not sure why rural voters keep voting for people that are out to defund public education, unless they believe the lie that they are getting a “choice”.

  2. The emphasis of this proposal is to allegedly give parents more and better choices for their children’s education. But it does not offer any way for parents to know which options are better than others. There needs to be a debate about that, and the metrics of how schools are assessed and rated. Doing that puts the advocates of school choice on a slippery slope, which means it won’t be done.

    1. The goal is to defund public schools and attack the teachers unions, reward religious schools, and pay off the big money donors to their campaigns who want charter schools to get government money with no strings attached.

      Better educational outcomes have never been a goal and the longer Republicans have been in charge, the worse the educational outcomes have been.

  3. If you believe in a “universal right to an education”, let parents, all of them, get a $7,000 voucher so they can send their kids to the school of their choice! My parents sent me to Catholic schools 1-12. They also paid for a public school system as well. At that time, public schools were not the indoctrination labs they are today. While some public schools are ok, most are too wrapped up in leftist ideology rather than focusing on the skill sets kids need for success. they also espouse hate-filled rhetoric about America. Each child deserves a great education! Vouchers help the poor send their kids to the school of THEIR choice…not the choice of teacher’s unions or the choice of whacked-out leftist control freaks! Why do leftists want to continue to trap poor kids in a terrible learning environment?? I guess so they can continue to control their thoughts and minds!

    1. I also went to Catholic schools for 12 years. My kids are in public schools after a stint in Christian private schools (at my own cost) and … I can only say you have no idea what you’re talking about.

      Indiana public schools have a curriculum dictated and approved by the Republicans in charge of education at the state level. They’ve been in charge for decades now.

      Private Christian schools use books from groups like Abeka and Bob Jones University that teach garbage like slavery being “black immigration”. They also tell kids with clinically diagnosed (again, at my own cost) dyslexia that they’re just not trying hard enough … and that girls shouldn’t aspire to take the advanced classes that are for boys.

      So like I said, go on about indoctrination some more. I think you’re just projecting.

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