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Indiana’s Destructive Education Reform Plan :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

Indiana’s Destructive Education Reform Plan :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
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Indiana’s Destructive Education Reform Plan

The following was written by parent advocate and Organizing Committee member Natalie Schwartz.

Indiana’s Destructive Education Reform Plan

By Natalie Schwartz

Indiana touts its “Putting Students First” education agenda, but the state’s detrimental education reform package puts politics first and students last.

“Indiana legislators have succeeded in passing the most comprehensive education reform package in the nation,” the Indiana Department of Education announced in a press release on Friday. “Today marked the end of the 2011 legislative session, and every component of the state’s ‘Putting Students First’ education agenda has either been signed or awaits the governor’s pen.”

Indiana’s education reform plan demonstrates that the people making decisions about our children’s education