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Feb 18, 2021 / 10:59 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Emotions reached a boiling point Thursday among state lawmakers. That heated exchange happened inside the Indiana Government Center where the Indiana House of Representatives was meeting. At one point, News 8 heard shouting and saw several people quickly leave the House chamber, a meeting room outside the Statehouse being used during the coronavirus pandemic. The commotion started when lawmakers were talking about House Bill 1367. According to an online digest, the bill would establish a two-year pilot program in the John Glenn School Corp., based in Walkerton, to initiate a process to disannex certain territory from the existing school corporation boundaries and annex other territory. Walkerton is about 20 miles southwest of South Bend. The Associated Press reported that the bill would allow a rural, mostly white, St. Joseph County township to leave the South Bend Community Schools. Rep. Jake Tashka, a Republican from ....
INDIANAPOLIS â Tensions flared at the Indiana Statehouse Thursday when several Black lawmakers were shouted down and booed by Republican lawmakers during floor debate on a South Bend Community School Corp.-related bill that some see as discriminatory. Rep. Greg Porter, D-Indianapolis, walked off the House floor after several Republican lawmakers loudly objected to his calls of discrimination in House Bill 1367. Porter, a member of the Black caucus, said the bill would allow students in St. Joseph Countyâs Greene Township to leave the South Bend district, which is racially diverse, to join John Glenn School Corp., which is smaller, more rural and made up of primarily white students. ....