INDIANAPOLIS — The state’s largest school district, and four other public school districts, could be doomed under a proposed bill to be considered when the Indiana General Assembly comes back to work this week.
House Bill 1136 would scrap the Indianapolis and Gary public school districts, among others, in favor of sending their public school students to charter schools beginning in 2028.
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”I think this bill has a racial component by advancing discriminatory policies that are targeting the two largest minority communities in the state of Indiana,” said State Sen. Fady Qaddoura, a Democrat representing Indianapolis. ”In my view, this piece of legislation had nothing to do with choice and has everything to do to continue to dismantle public education as we know it today in Indiana.”
The bill from Rep. Jake Teshka, a Republican from North Liberty, would dissolve any school district that has more than 50% of its potential students attending other schools outside its jurisdiction or charter schools not under the local school board’s control…