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It seems to me that the taxpayers – not the state legislature, not a court – should be the ones who decide the appropriate means for the use and disposal of school facilities that are no longer needed. It was taxpayer money that built and maintained the facilities, and essentially them giving away is an insult to those of paid for them in the first place.
Well, since IPS clearly can’t maintain all the infrastructure it has, why not force them to let it go? Or lease it out for $1 per year and make the charter school do the maintenance.
IPS hung onto the old Polk Dairy Stables, the old Ford plant on Washington, and the old Coca-Cola plant on Mass Ave. for WAY longer than they should have…the Dairy all but fell in on itself. The former limestone panels on the IPS HQ building were falling off…only to be replaced by an ugly chain link fence. They have a long history of not maintaining things.
Chris, if the issue is that IPS doesn’t know how to run things, why don’t Statehouse Republicans just pass a law, take the school district over, and run it as they see fit?
Call the law what it is, it’s giving away taxpayer property to religious and charter school operators who’ve donated big dollars to our legislators.
I agree with Brent. It is an insult to not put them on the market, because tax payers paid a lot more than $1 to build these things.
Joe, that’s a whole different topic.
I don’t approve of the slow death of IPS by a thousand cuts (slicing off more schools every year). Concentrate it, or kill it.
IPS should probably devolve all of its pieces outside Center Township to the various Township school districts (concentrate the district). Or maybe go out of business entirely, by dividing up the pieces inside Center in wedges to adjoining Township districts.
IPS was drawn very specifically for very specific reasons, which is why there was busing for many years.
And I disagree that the $1 law is another topic. The end goal is not have a public education system, or for it to be so mediocre and awful that only the poor or foolish send their kids there. What we are witnessing is just a death by a thousand cuts and that law is part of it.
@BrentB, I assume you mean local “school district” tax payers.
This $1 law is yet another way the shortsighted Indiana legislature is tying the hands of local governmental institutions. Meddling lawmakers cripple the ability of cities and school corporations to properly fund their operations, and in this case, then seek to gift their assets to private corporations. It’s almost as if Republicans are actively trying to make government fail.
I’m not sure the $1 law was shortsighted. It seems like an intentional way for our state legislation to fund private and charter schools at taxpayers’ expense – like many of the things the Indiana state legislation seems to be doing. Otherwise, why not let the schools sell the properties for fair market value and thus recoup some of the taxpayer dollars?
In some cases – such as our district – the $1 law has caused money to be dumped into old buildings when it would have been more cost effective to abandon and sell an existing building/property and build a new building on a new, better location. Because such a move means the abandoned property would only provide $1 instead of *millions* the cost formula changes.
The state legislation needs to drop the law.
I’m not sure the $1 law was shortsighted. It seems like an intentional way for our state legislation to fund private and charter schools at taxpayers’ expense – like many of the things the Indiana state legislation seems to be doing. Otherwise, why not let the schools sell the properties for fair market value and thus recoup some of the taxpayer dollars?
In some cases – such as our district – the $1 law has caused money to be dumped into old buildings when it would have been more cost effective to abandon and sell an existing building/property and build a new building on a new, better location. Because such a move means the abandoned property would only provide $1 instead of *millions* the cost formula changes.
The state legislation needs to drop the law.