Emails detail formation of school voucher plan
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana education overhaul that launched the nation’s broadest school voucher program and brought sweeping changes to how teachers and schools are evaluated angered thousands of teachers and made lightning rods of then-Gov. Mitch Daniels and schools chief Tony Bennett.
But emails and other documents obtained by The Associated Press show that a small group of GOP powerbrokers crafted the details of the education policy that made Indiana a conservative model over Scotch whisky at an Indianapolis steakhouse and in meetings at a private club.
In the months before the education package was unveiled to the public, its architects mulled the policy and politics of the rollout without any input from state lawmakers who’d later be tasked with passing the measures. They even debated when to loop in Daniels ahead of an election in which Republicans reclaimed control of the state House.
“My thought would be that we can get the momentum going and let MD (Mitch Daniels) take the
But emails and other documents obtained by The Associated Press show that a small group of GOP powerbrokers crafted the details of the education policy that made Indiana a conservative model over Scotch whisky at an Indianapolis steakhouse and in meetings at a private club.
In the months before the education package was unveiled to the public, its architects mulled the policy and politics of the rollout without any input from state lawmakers who’d later be tasked with passing the measures. They even debated when to loop in Daniels ahead of an election in which Republicans reclaimed control of the state House.
“My thought would be that we can get the momentum going and let MD (Mitch Daniels) take the
