Key quote from IN Gov Mike Braun on mid-decade redistricting: “If we try to drag our feet as a state on it, probably, we’ll have consequences of not working with the Trump administration as tightly as we should.”

‘Del Valle’s research was flagged by the NIH for the words “trans” and “diverse,” according to Grant Witness. The project’s abstract refers to cellular transmission at various points and “diverse modes of b-sheet packing.”’ indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/12/c...

Has he referred himself for election fraud prosecution for voting in one county while claiming a homestead tax credit in another?

Indiana has cut spending on education of all types. In fact, our state hasn’t spent this small a share of our GDP on education for several decades”: @profhicks.bsky.social www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Thanks to @indianacitizen.org for posting the story on Indiana's 1995 redistricting fight that I did for @limestonepost.bsky.social. indianacitizen.org/limestone-po...

“Indiana is one of at least five states that rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews.” Frim @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/mate...

In Indiana, nearly all the 300+ private schools that receive vouchers are religious and exempt from tax reporting. There’s no way to know how much self-dealing takes place.

Republicans get <60% of the vote in Indiana but control 100% of US Senate seats, 78% of US House seats, 80% of state Senate seats and 70% of state House seats. How much more can they gerrymander?

Rules for thee, not for me.

“Transgender people are under attack here in Indiana — and all across the country — because, to put it bluntly: Gay people aren't scary enough anymore”: Rep Ed Clere www.wfyi.org/news/article...

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“It’s as if you’re saying the minority community were never here. You never existed”: Rep. @cherrishpryor.bsky.social

Outrageous

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

“One cannot exaggerate how dangerous and unhistorical this ruling is.”

The Senate is trying to push forward dangerous Medicaid cuts THIS weekend! Please CALL your Senators TODAY & voice your opposition to Medicaid cuts to fund a billionaire tax giveaway! We've got phone numbers and a call script on our website 👇 www.hoosieraction.org/medicaid

Indiana spent nearly $500 million on private school vouchers in 2024-25, per a new report from the state education department. More details in this post: inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/i...

“Congressional Republicans fear the sort of retribution that would not simply oust them from office but would also threaten their lives and those of their staff and their families”

“We deserve to know what merited the president’s decision to launch the attacks without the support of Congress. “But how can we expect clear and honest answers from a man who lies as easily as he breathes?”

Who is new IU trustee Brian Eagle? @clairerafford.bsky.social at Mirror Indy with a story i hoped to see. mirrorindy.org/indiana-univ...

Once again, the Braun administration blames the Holcomb administration when a serious problem develops on its watch.

Still waiting to see what happens to the school’s founder.

We really need to dumb down this presidency thing.

This starts to seem like a pattern. Roob blames predecessors for Medicaid and child care messes. Beckwith blames them loss of SUN Bucks kids' food program. Spox blames them for Public Access Counselor problems.

Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Really good journalism by @tyfenwick.bsky.social at Mirror Indy.

A recent study from Indiana finds that attending virtual charter high schools was associated with “large, negative impacts” on graduation rates and college enrollment: inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/s...

“The bottom line: not only will the program bring vouchers to all fifty states, including states that have rejected them, but the deep-pocketed donors at the helm of the school-privatization Rolls Royce will now be able to profit off of their efforts to dismantle public schools.”

Sheila writes about private school vouchers and Christian nationalism, quoting Q&A with @joshcowenmi.bsky.social for @indianacitizen.org

Once again, you can’t make this stuff up.

Thanks to @indianacitizen.org for publishing my interview with @joshcowenmi.bsky.social on vouchers and their connection to Christian nationalism: indianacitizen.org/school-vouch...

Good explanation of what’s at stake with the SCOTUS religious charter school case.

There is no bottom for these people.

Private schools won’t get more money if IN makes its voucher program universal. The extra state spending (c. $100M) would go to families whose kids are already in private schools. inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...

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Also, what’s the status of Todd Rokita’s lawsuit seeking to have Section 504 declared unconstitutional?

Thanks to @wfhb and local LWV for giving me a chance to talk about vouchers. wfhb.org/news-public-...

‘“You cannot react in 10 minutes, so you cannot protect your assets in 10 minutes,” Johns said.’ Does “assets” mean peoples lives? Children’s? www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

“A bill that would have required the district to share transportation resources with charters didn’t advance earlier this session. But Rep. Robert Behning, the Indianapolis Republican who authored the bill, told Chalkbeat he intends to insert language from that bill into other legislation.” 1

Good explanation of what’s happening at the Statehouse with IPS and charter schools.

Great reporting by @wdownard.bsky.social. Note: FGA was also behind the push last year to weaken child labor standards, which IN did.

Watching the IN legislature school funding subcommittee hearing. Not sure, but I don't think I'd have the nerve to say publicly that my spouse and I make >$270K and the state needs to give us $20K to send keep sending our kids to private schools.

This story is a lot meatier than the headline makes it sound. Detail: Speaker Huston says he stopped consulting for Stride Feb 28. The House budget that gives Stride (and Clarksville) a windfall passed Feb 20.

Key case in the Christian Nationalist goal of mandatory public funding of religious schools . www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Strange irony that this 2017 story on vouchers and discrimination quotes Roncalli counselor Shelly Fitzgerald, who would later be fired for sexual orientation. www.chalkbeat.org/2017/8/10/21...

Important story with comments from @hoosieraction.bsky.social

“The problem isn’t that Trump administration policies have already hit the economy. The problem is that unhinged wackiness is the Trump governing strategy.”

I wrote about what's really behind the assault on the Department of Education. Hint: Americans have long placed their faith in the idea that schools can *equalize* us. Now that equality is a banned term, both the department & public education are on the chopping block thebaffler.com/latest/cruel...

The poll didn’t ask if respondents want to cut public school funding by $2B over 3 years? Because that’s what Braun’s property tax plan would do.

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