There’s more going on, with the Indiana legislature now trying to strip Ritz of her authority. It is just mindboggling to see. Glenda Ritz received more votes than Pence. He and his Koch appointed buddies are taking away the rights of Hoosiers to choose who runs education. Clearly, Hoosiers do not want the authoritarian dictatorship of Herr Pence.
Link here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/10/its-a-mess-in-indiana/
Today, February 12, the Senate Education Committee voted to exempt voucher schools receiving public money from ISTEP, the state testing program. It was a straight party-line vote, 7-3. The voucher schools may take a test of their own choosing.
Here is a report from Vic Smith, who blogs about education and politics in Indiana:
Vic’s Statehouse Notes #201 – February 12, 2015
Put this bill in the category of “Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse for Public Education”!
Yesterday afternoon (Feb. 11th) the Senate Education Committee heard Senate Bill 470. It would allow private schools receiving vouchers to ignore ISTEP and to take instead “another nationally recognized and norm referenced assessment” of their own choice. The bill instructs the State Board to develop an A-F system just for the voucher schools taking alternate assessments.
Last year, a similar bill was quickly rejected by the committee because of…
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