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I’ve been saying for a long time now, BUT SIMPLY BUILD EXTRA SPACE AT TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS FOR CHARTERS TO USE.
The bottom line some folks seem to be missing won’t change: all Indiana public schools must accept all students who arrive at their front door–24/7/365. No charter or voucher school has that mandate.
And the attendant facts are: a public school district must plan, construct, maintain, staff and plan for any future eventuality. Those enrollment numbers change daily in most public school districts.
It’s doubly infuriating to public school advocates, that much of the voucher money is promoted to help “those poor under-advantaged students whose needs aren’t being met by public schools…” A charter school in north-central Marion County was just approved with that exact loud (and eventually effective) claim, which is not true.
And the reality noted in this excellent IBJ story is—much of the voucher money is being used by families who don’t need the voucher.
For what it’s worth, whenever your family’s needs aren’t being met by a public school, you can choose another public school where the needs are met. Or, you can dig in and demand the needs be met. That’s not an easy path. It should be much easier.
But it is preferable in the long run, to this drip-drip-drip draining of our public education coffers, by vouchers and charters.
Children belong to their parents, and parents will decide where and who will educate them. (Not indoctrinate them). Liberals / progressives / unions have ruined most public schools. No one who loves their children would risk their futures in the morally bankrupt environment of most public schools.
Brain rot.
OK… We have a huge surge in voucher usage by upper income parents that could already afford to send kids to private schools, and now they want publically funded transit as well?
Didn’t we got sold on the idea that everyone would get school choice? Marion county already had plenty of options and now we have 70 more charters operating in Marion county alone? People in rural areas should be screaming bloody murder. They get none of these options and their state tax dollars are going to private operators in an already crowded market.
They aren’t screaming because they’re happy with their schools.
“Overall, 88 percent of parents who responded to the survey said they were satisfied with the quality of their child’s school. Satisfaction was especially high among parents whose children are in elementary school and parents in rural and small communities throughout the state — at 90 percent and 96 percent respectively.
Another key takeaway: only 2 percent of parents surveyed said they are both aware of and disagree with the subjects and topics taught in their school. Those who fall into this category were not statistically different from the rest of the parents surveyed regarding race, income, population density, education or internet access, according to a report released by the IDOE. “
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/most-indiana-parents-approve-of-their-schools-and-what-is-taught-gallup-finds
Charter schools are a solution for which public school choice solves the problem in the vast majority of cases. Vouchers exist primarily to divert money to religious schools who indoctrinate them with garbage textbooks, hurt the teachers unions, and reward the big money “school choice” donors who give to legislators.
If referendum dollars are mandated to be shared with charters, and tax dollars are shared for transportation, then let’s
get everyone on the same page. The story continues to be the same: public schools will have to accept everyone and charters
may “counsel students out” or have a policy such as “2 F’s and you’re gone.”
This isn’t so much about school transportation as it is Indiana’s, in particular, Indianapolis’ pathetic regression when it comes to transportation and infrastructure. The city has rail overpasses that vehicles pass under daily that barely clear 10’. They haven’t been maintained since constructed 115 years ago. West Washington street (a U S highway) just claimed another pedestrian’s life because no one ever built a sidewalk in the first place! Yellow school buses for city high schools? Years ago we took designated city buses that ran dedicated routes. You got on..then dropped 15 cents in the little receptacle…or walked. My point, Indianapolis, with a far smaller population and far less local, state or federal revenue provided round the clock rail or bus, trolley transportation to every city block and 46 of the 92 counties. The state has just spent a BILLION $ to upgrade the South Shore rail line serving 1/4th of the population of Hamilton and Marion counties. This state legislature needs to make infrastructure and public transportation a MAJOR BUDGETARY PRIORITY for CENTRAL INDIANA! dedicate the time and money needed to bring us at least back to 1920, let alone the 21st century. They can begin with mass transit serving the donut counties of Indianapolis. As it is, compared to the rest of the country it’s an embarrassing joke. 🤡.