Hoosier children deserve better than the education system that nearly 20 years of Republican control has left us with in Indiana.
The Republicans passed a solution to this problem, a bill that will hold back the thousands of third graders who don’t pass the exam. Singling students out and separating them from their friends and classmates can have devastating effects on confidence and social development. Once those students reach high school, they have a higher tendency to drop out of school.
On top of that, the lack of oversight for charter schools has resulted in bad actors stealing money from the state that we could be using to improve public schools and fund pre-K. This year, three former charter school operators wereby falsely reporting attendance numbers to receive higher funding. We must stop funneling taxpayer money to private businesses that are abusing the system to make a profit instead of educating our children.