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Nice to see the Bob Behning weigh in since the retired florist has more say in Indiana schools than just about any trained educator.
How about charter schools receiving funding parity when they’re subject to the same transparency requirements as public schools? They shouldn’t have it both ways – more government money with very few strings attached and minimal oversight.
Maybe Behning should be more worried about preventing a repeat of the charter school that stole $86 million dollars.
It is simply astounding that Indiana – where Republican state politicians are eager and quick to boast their fiscal prudence – would write, pass, and tout a law that gives away properties built/maintained and paid for by their taxpaying constituents.
And why? Because they want to eliminate public – free – education for all our children.
And why? Because they believe public education – something created by, operated by, and supported by government with citizen oversight, is a failure (which, if true, is a damn poor reflection on those very same politicians who apparently abdicated their responsibilities to ensure effective and efficient government-sponsored, taxpayer-supported organizations and activities).
These politicians would prefer that private entities own and operated the primary and secondary schools in Indiana, without any government oversight or accountability.
If all of this doesn’t scream “insanity” to you, all hope if lost.
Republicans: The party of folks who get elected by saying government is incompetent and the enemy of the people, and then they get elected and prove it. Now they are destroying traditional public schools in Indianapolis as part of the screw-Indianapolis ethos that has dominated the Indiana General Assembly for decades. The Mind Trust, which got Bill Gates to drop a quarter-million on a recent IPS election, could wave a wand and have the legislature make the $1 rule go away, but they are fully invested in privatizing the public assets that Indianapolis citizens have paid for in full with our tax dollars. This is a taking, pure and simple.
If they’re closing the schools, why in the world would they retain the buildings — a huge fixed cost they are attempting to eliminate.
Obviously IPS would like to get rid of the buildings, but not if they have to be given away. These buildings represent millions and millions of dollars of Indianapolis taxpayer investment over decades, but anti-urban GOP legislators have mandated that they be sold for $1 each.