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HAMILTON â The Hamilton Community Schools board Monday approved a joint resolution with the Hamilton teachers association against proposed legislation expanding vouchers and creating Education Savings Accounts.
Superintendent Anthony Cassel said the proposed legislation allows parents to opt out of public schools by providing a taxpayer-funded debit card valued at $5,000 to $7,000 that can be spent on private schools, home schooling, tutoring or any number of private education products and services.
The proposed legislation also would expand the annual income limit for families eligible to use vouchers, Cassel noted.
âTheyâre expanding benefits for the upper class,â Cassel said.
âThe original intent of vouchers and school choice .. often had to do with the bigger cities, giving the students choices that were in failing schools a viable option. Theyâre now looking at expanding the annual income limit for a household of five from $85,000 to $170,000.
School boards push back against Indiana voucher expansions
CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America
March 10, 2021
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Local school leaders across Indiana are lining up against a Republican-backed school funding plan over concerns it wold give private schools a big financial boost at the detriment of traditional public schools.
Projected to cost $144 million, the voucher expansion and a new program allowing parents to directly spend state money on their child’s education expenses would siphon more than one-third of the proposed state funding hike for Indiana schools.
In response, at least 65 public school boards have passed formal resolutions against the proposed legislation through a campaign organized by the Indiana School Boards Association. Terry Spradlin, the association s executive director, said that more than a third of the state s 289 school districts are expected to adopt resolutions before legislators finalize the budge
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ANGOLA â A local judge has set the first trial date for a breach of contract case involving Superintendent Brent Wilson and the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County s Board of Trustees, scheduling the matter to go before a jury on July 27.
Online court information shows Steuben Superior Court Judge William Fee set the trial date Tuesday after a telephonic pretrial conference with Wilson s attorney Linda Pence, and the district s counsel, Matthew Elliott, even as he ordered both parties to return to mediation. The pretrial conference was held in the judge s chambers and was not open to the public.
Wilson, who has been the district s superintendent since 2006, sued the Board in March 2020, alleging breach of contract after it voted in August 2016 to remove an automatic rollover provision that previously provided Wilson with a never-ending five-year contract.