Bill To Dissolve Certain Indiana School Districts Fails To Advance

Source: WISH-TV

STATEHOUSE–A bill that would have broken up Indianapolis Public Schools along with other school districts did not advance out of the House Education Committee.

House Bill 1136 would have dissolved all school corporations in which more than half of the students living within a corporation’s boundaries attend a charter school.

That would have affected five school corporations, including Indianapolis Public Schools and Gary Community School Corp. The bill was assigned to the House Education Committee, but a hearing was never called for it before Monday’s deadline for committee votes in the chamber in which the bills originated. Bills that don’t meet certain deadlines during the legislative session die automatically, though they can be brought back later as amendments to other bills.

Bills in the General Assembly have until Thursday to pass out of the chamber in which they were filed. After that, lawmakers will take a week off for their mid-session break before returning to Indianapolis so that each chamber can consider the other’s proposals.