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Fear bill will reduce funds for teachers’ salaries
A bill that could make an impact on Harrison County schools is making its way through the Indiana legislature and does not have the support of any of the county’s three superintendents.
The bill, HB 1005, authored by Republican State Rep. Bob Behning, whose district includes portions of Hendricks and Marion counties, passed in the Indiana House of Representatives 61-36 and moved to the Indiana Senate on Feb. 16. It is being described as the “school choice matters” bill. If passed, it would allow that, after June 30, 2022, there would be an Indiana education scholarship account program.
Draining the swamp
Phil Bloom
“Don t it always seem to go, that you don t know what you ve got til it s gone.”
– Joni Mitchell,
“Big Yellow Taxi”
Indiana once had a natural feature unmatched in the country. It was the Grand Kankakee Marsh, the largest inland wetland in America.
Formed by the same retreating glacier that gave northeastern Indiana hundreds of freshwater lakes, the Grand Kankakee stretched along the Kankakee River s twisting, winding path from South Bend to Momence, Illinois. Its estimated size ranged from a half million to 1 million acres.
It was about the size of Rhode Island and dubbed “The Everglades of the North” and “Chicago s Food Pantry.”