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I know this is a third party piece, but it seems to fall below the standards of balance and fairness IBJ projects. The largely unsupported conclusion that opposition is growing and the little factoids at the end expose the bias of the source. I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but this is what I would like to know, as someone looking in from the outside. Do the Paramount schools really come closer to closing the gap for the test scores of Black and economically underprivileged kids? If so, how does Washington Township explain that gap and how do they intend to address it? Is the curriculum for the proposed school really that much different than the currciulum at Washington Township? Is this just recycling the same old thing in order to try to grab students, or is something new being offered. Again, from the outside, this feels very much like one school system trying to protect its territory from the attempt of a charter school to reach a targeted group of students. Can IBJ please go beyond the surface arguments and conclusions and provide some substance to allow people to make up their minds based on the facts, not the rhetoric and the politics? Your source publication is not doing that. It would be very helpful if you did.
MW: your comments are succinct and thoughtful. Here’s the rub:
The parent company of this proposed school has a dismal current record in these matters. And, the existing nearby school districts–WashTwp and Pike–meet the needs of the proposed student body. Very well.
It’s a tuition-grab. Vouchers deplete resources from public schools. Our stated is awash in poor public policy in these regards. Sadly. This money-grab won’t stop. But it should.
Sounds like a decision that should be left to area parents – and if the townships are that strong academically, they shouldn’t be so threatened. This isn’t the Pike and Washington Townships of 20 plus years ago.
Policymakers have an obligation to maximize education choices for parents based on the needs of their children. This right of choice was secured years ago by the Indiana General Assembly and has been enjoyed by thousands of Hoosier families. It is outrageous that MSD Washington Township (or any public school district in the future) would use tax dollars to try to block this important choice for local parents. It is also outrageous that they would claim as one of its arguments that the district already has two “high-performing” schools nearby when even a cursory look at the Indiana Dept. of Education data says otherwise. According to IDOE, they are in fact two of the lowest performing schools in the district. At one, only 54% of white students, 8.7% of black students, and 6.4% of Hispanic students are proficient when tested in 6th grade math. Only 5.8% of students on Free and Reduced lunch demonstrated such proficiency in math. At the other school, there was a 50% achievement gap between white students and those of color. To say a charter school focused on math and other STEM subjects for girls of color is not needed in Washington Township — let alone desperately needed — is to blindly deny the facts.