Indiana

IPS?d Off

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Indianapolis Public Schools have really stepped in it this time.

Not only is it being reported that the school district admitted to hiding plans to close four of the schools with enrollment under 300 students listed on the November 4 referendum construction ballot which would spend $278,000,000 of your hard earned property tax dollars, but I found out this evening that the District’s notified its principals about the potential school closings on about this on October 16.

And think about this.  The deadline to submit the referendum (which lists the schools by the way) was August 1.   And I think it’s safe to assume the IPS administration had been thinking about this for a while.  And even if they weren’t sure about enrollment, the Election Board didn’t ratify the ballots until October 1, so you think someone could have said something by then.

More damning details are slated to be released tomorrow, but think about this.

A school district with declining enrollment and increasing costs and not the best reputation in the world, is floating a plan to spend nearly $300,000,000 of your money to repair schools that it was planning to close and not tell you about it until it was too late.

I don’t know who’s advising Dr. Eugene White on all this, but they should be fired!

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).