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April 8, 2021 5:18 PM By TOM DAVIES
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Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, talks during a news conference in the House chamber on Thursday, April 1, 2021. The House voted Monday, April 5, 2021, to give the Legislature more authority to intervene during emergencies declared by the governor. Gov. Eric Holcomb has said he will veto the bill, and Huston said he expected courts will ultimately decide whether it is allowed under the state constitution.
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 23, 2019, file photo, Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Bremen, speaks during a hearing at the Statehouse, in Indianapolis. The Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee that Mishler chairs, on Thursday, April 8, 2021, endorsed a state budget plan that scales back a proposed expansion of Indiana s private school voucher program while still boosting the program s spending by about 25%.
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The tone of the 2021 budget session of the Indiana General Assembly has been quite different from the last budget session in 2019.
That was when K-12 public education leaders stood with legislative leaders to announce a state budget that devoted $763 million in new funding for K-12 public education.
Fast forward to this session, and it has been one consumed with a contentious debate on the proposed expansion of school choice programs that devote significant funds to private education.
Indiana already ranks fifth for spending of state tax dollars on private school programs, but now ranks just 39th in the nation for per-pupil expenditures for public schools and the more than 1 million students we serve â down from 22nd among states in 2004.