The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend is ending the practice of offering referral incentives, in light of the state voucher program. Public schools feel the practice was “unethical.”
Jeanetta White said in September she pulled her four foster kids out of South Bend public schools and enrolled them in parochial school with the help of Indiana’s new voucher program because she was fed up with the public schools’ performance. “Why are parents taking kids out of public schools? There has to be something wrong,” [...]
Among the biggest beneficiaries of Indiana’s expansive new voucher program are the parents who could have paid to send their kids to private school anyway. Jeanetta White’s four foster kids went to public school last year. By this summer, she was fed up. White, 54, wanted to enroll them in private school — and she [...]
80 schools have been cleared for participation in Indiana’s private and parochial school voucher program. So far, the participating schools are 100 percent parochial — 79 Christian schools, and one Islamic school. The Indiana Department of Education released a list of the schools whose applications have been accepted to participate in what’s been widely called [...]
Indiana Public Broadcasting statehouse Reporter Brandon Smith filed a report about a lawsuit over whether or not Indiana can issue vouchers to private schools. Indiana’s Choice Scholarship bill, establishing the broadest school voucher program in the country, is now facing a challenge in state court. A lawsuit filed in Marion County Superior Court Friday by [...]
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