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Indiana House Republicans want to spend at least $65 million less on traditional K-12 schools in their state budget plan than Gov. Eric Holcomb proposed.
The House GOP budget instead prioritizes increases for school vouchers and virtual schools.
The proposal increases tuition support for K-12 schools by $378 million over the next two years – that’s $1 million more than Holcomb’s proposal. But the House Republican plan includes a significant expansion of school vouchers for private schools, taking up $66 million of that increase.
Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville) is his caucus’s budget architect.
“Parents by far and away want to make choices for their kids, Brown said. They want to have options.”