TAKE ACTION: Oppose bill to keep kids in failing private voucher schools
02/18/2017
HB 1384 originally addressed the method of calculating school graduation rates, but an amendment in the House Education Committee has drastically changed this into a bill that would allow private and religious schools to remain part of the state’s voucher program, despite two years of low or failing grades.
Under this bill, the new accountability standard for private schools is not student test score performance, as is the case for every other school, but rather, whether a majority of students demonstrated academic improvement from the prior year. Rep. Behning added an emergency clause to this bill.
Vouchers were sold to Hoosiers under the premise that they would help get kids out of failing schools, not keep them in one.
The bill is still in committee and will be voted on Monday morning.