Weekly Statehouse Update: School Choice Expansion, Defund The Police Ban Rejected
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School voucher expansion clears the House. The Senate passes a bill to more harshly penalize rioters. And a measure banning “defund the police” is soundly rejected.
Here’s what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.
Controversial legislation that would create Indiana s first educational savings account program and expand the eligibility of state-funded private school vouchers to families with double the state s median income passed out of the House Tuesday.
Under the expansion, families making double the state’s median income would now be eligible for those vouchers. And voucher expansion would take up about a third of House Republicans’ proposed increase in K-12 school funding in the next state budget.
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