Hoosiers should be proud to have a Superintendent of Public Instruction who stands up for a parent’s right to choose the best education possible for their child. Dr. Bennett received a national award earlier this month for being a school choice champion. Dr. Tony Bennett Honored with John T. Walton Champions for School Choice Award [...]
Voucher Program Redistributes Nearly $4.2 Million in Savings
Voucher Program Redistributes Nearly $4.2 Million in Savings to Indiana Schools in Year One; Officials Launch New Campaign to Educate Parents on School Choice Options Indiana’s voucher program has been applauded for bringing school options to Hoosier families. Now, the program is being recognized for redistributing savings across the state too. According to data just [...]
Dayana’s Opportunity for a Better Life
Dayana Vazquez-Buquer was excelling at Greenwood High School and had no interest in transferring elsewhere when her mom first mentioned a new state voucher program meant for families like hers. The vivacious 16-year-old balked. Her friends were at Greenwood. Her grades were good. And as she prepared for her junior year, Dayana didn’t feel any need to transfer to a [...]
Indiana Claims Title of Nation’s Biggest First-Year Voucher Program Ever
Note: this is a joint press release from School Choice Indiana and the organization’s partner groups including: The Indiana Non-Public Education Association, the Indiana Catholic Conference, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, the American Federation for Children, and Agudath Israel. Indiana Claims Title of [...]
Voucher Program a Success!
Indiana’s school voucher program has proven to be a success! More than 4,000 Hoosier students have received a voucher in the program’s first year, and nearly 2,000 are on the newly expanded tax credit scholarship program. The voucher program allows parents a new option when it comes to their children’s education. Parents who meet income [...]
Private schools lining up to accept public school students with vouchers
By John Martin of the Evansville Courier & Press. The full article can be reached by clicking here. Originally published 06:15 p.m., June 9, 2011 Updated 06:15 p.m., June 9, 2011 EVANSVILLE — Local private schools are lining up to welcome applications from public school students interested in using state-funded vouchers to transfer to them. [...]
If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools
This article was first posted on the Wall Street Journal’s Website by By Donald J. Boudreaux. You can read the full article by clicking here. Teachers unions and their political allies argue that market forces can’t supply quality education. According to them, only our existing system—politicized and monopolistic—will do the trick. Yet Americans would find [...]
Why school vouchers are worth a shot
By Katrina Trinko, originally posted at USA Today Online. Read the article by clicking here. Imagine if we only passed legislation that simultaneously slashed spending, boosted income equality, shrunk government, protected the environment, and ensured that pandas didn’t go extinct. That’d be a recipe for do-nothing lawmakers who failed to solve any of our pressing problems, just because [...]
Indiana GOP pushes ahead with big voucher program
Indiana’s Republican leadership is pushing ahead with a proposal that would be the nation’s broadest use of school vouchers, allowing even middle-class families to use taxpayer money to send their kids to private schools. Unlike other systems that are limited to lower-income households, children with special needs or those in failing schools, this one would [...]
