Articles tagged as: school vouchers
November 6, 2024
Kentucky voters reject private, charter school funding amendment
Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Associated Press called the race.
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024
Vouchers for Indiana students with disabilities hits record enrollment
All $10 million budgeted for Indiana's Education Scholarship Account is spoken for this school year.
Read MoreJune 18, 2024
Nearly 1 in 5 Indiana students don’t attend their home school district. Here’s the impact of school choice
A WFYI analysis found nearly 1 in 5 students use a school choice policy to attend a school outside their home district.
Read MoreMay 28, 2024
Database: How much money private schools get in Indiana's voucher program
The most recent data on how much money private schools receive in Indiana's voucher program.
Read MoreMay 24, 2024
Indiana private school vouchers hit record with 70,000 students, nearly half-billion dollar cost
Enrollment in Indiana’s private-school voucher program surged to 70,095 students in 2023-24. That’s a 31 percent increase compared to the previous year — the largest ever jump in a single year.
Read MoreApril 19, 2024
New report says Indiana does little to make pre-K widely available
A new national report on preschool access shows Indiana lags behind most other states.
Read MoreApril 5, 2024
Indianapolis charter school seeks to go private so it can accept vouchers
The Genius School, a K-6 school on the city’s east side, is petitioning the State Board of Education for accreditation as a non-public school.
Read MoreOctober 25, 2023
Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is exceeding budgets in some states
In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition -- and more people than projected are taking the offer, which might force scrambles to shore up state budgets.
Read MoreJuly 16, 2023
Federal court rules Roncalli Catholic school, archdiocese was allowed to fire a 2nd gay counselor
For the second time, a federal appeals court ruled that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis did not violate discrimination laws when it fired a school counselor in 2018 for being in a same-sex marriage.
Read MoreJune 30, 2023
From pronouns to free textbooks, here are 7 new Indiana education laws
Some of Indiana's new education laws are highly controversial.
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