Letters to the Editor 04-19-2005
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Call Daniels - Good School
Call Daniels
Editor, Times-Union:Calls are needed immediately to ask Gov. Mitch Daniels to veto a bill that would force taxpayers to pay $7,000 for a $2,500 education for thousands of pupils. The bill is SB 598.
It is very inexpensive to educate a child who gets his education via the Internet at home, $2,500 at the most. So if a public charter school does this, taxpayers should not be compelled to pay $7,000 for the pupil, right?
The legislature thinks otherwise. They have approved a bill that will allow public charter schools to deliver internet education to students who stay home, but would still allow them to collect full per pupil funding from you, the taxpayer!
Please call Gov. Mitch Daniels immediately. Your message can be as simple as:
"Please veto Senate Bill 598. It's fiscally irresponsible and will raise my taxes needlessly. Restore fiscal protection and accountability by preventing charter schools that provide inexpensive Internet education from getting full per pupil funding from taxpayers."
This bill hurts you as a taxpayer.
Call Gov. Daniels at 317-232-4567.
Background: Senate Bill 598 removes a current safeguard that protects taxpayers from fiscal disaster.
Under the current law, charter schools are prohibited from giving home-based instruction. This is because charter schools get paid around $7,000 per student but it only costs $500 to $2,500 to provide home-based instruction.
S.B. 598 removes this vital safeguard and allows charter schools to provide inexpensive home based instruction while receiving full per pupil funding. Many middle income citizens are struggling to pay rising property taxes. They do not want their taxes raised because of a law that pays charter schools $7,000 for a $2,500 education.
About 23,250 students are being homeschooled in Indiana today. If only 25 percent (5,812) were recruited into charter schools, Indiana taxpayers would see their tax bill go up $40.6 million.
Indiana Code 20-5.5-8-2 currently prohibits a charter school from providing "home-based instruction." S.B. 598 guts this prohibition by inserting the word "solely" in front of it. This would allow charters to provide inexpensive home-based instruction to 99 percent of their students as long as 1 percent received non-home based instruction.
Homeschooling is good.
Charter schools are good.
S.B. 598 is bad, for everyone.
Daniel Stevens
Libertarian Party Kosciusko County
Warsaw
Good School
Editor, Times-Union:When I learned last week that my seventh-grade niece and a group of her friends had been threatened at school, I was taken back by the thought of children and their school life.
To be scared into thinking you were going to be beat up and made to feel unsafe in the hallways of your school is unimaginable. It really made me realize how much I take my son's teachers and school for granted. My son is a first-grader at Redeemer Lutheran and I could not be more pleased with the academic standards the school upholds. For my son to be greeted every morning by the staff, by name no less, and made to feel welcome every day is truly a blessing. They display a true and genuine interest and care for every child in the school regardless of their age or their faith. Although no one can place a value on the importance of education and safety of your children, Redeemer Lutheran is affordable and well worth every penny. With accredited teachers, great test scores and all-around love and care for my child, I can't imagine him going to school anywhere else. They make you feel like family. As we leave the care of our children every day in the hands of some one else, I for one am glad my son is at Redeemer Lutheran. His education and well-being is priceless and I know that every member of the staff feels the same way. I thank God every day for the awesome experience he has by attending the school.
Chris Morehouse
Warsaw
via e-mail
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- Call Daniels - Good School
Call Daniels
Editor, Times-Union:Calls are needed immediately to ask Gov. Mitch Daniels to veto a bill that would force taxpayers to pay $7,000 for a $2,500 education for thousands of pupils. The bill is SB 598.
It is very inexpensive to educate a child who gets his education via the Internet at home, $2,500 at the most. So if a public charter school does this, taxpayers should not be compelled to pay $7,000 for the pupil, right?
The legislature thinks otherwise. They have approved a bill that will allow public charter schools to deliver internet education to students who stay home, but would still allow them to collect full per pupil funding from you, the taxpayer!
Please call Gov. Mitch Daniels immediately. Your message can be as simple as:
"Please veto Senate Bill 598. It's fiscally irresponsible and will raise my taxes needlessly. Restore fiscal protection and accountability by preventing charter schools that provide inexpensive Internet education from getting full per pupil funding from taxpayers."
This bill hurts you as a taxpayer.
Call Gov. Daniels at 317-232-4567.
Background: Senate Bill 598 removes a current safeguard that protects taxpayers from fiscal disaster.
Under the current law, charter schools are prohibited from giving home-based instruction. This is because charter schools get paid around $7,000 per student but it only costs $500 to $2,500 to provide home-based instruction.
S.B. 598 removes this vital safeguard and allows charter schools to provide inexpensive home based instruction while receiving full per pupil funding. Many middle income citizens are struggling to pay rising property taxes. They do not want their taxes raised because of a law that pays charter schools $7,000 for a $2,500 education.
About 23,250 students are being homeschooled in Indiana today. If only 25 percent (5,812) were recruited into charter schools, Indiana taxpayers would see their tax bill go up $40.6 million.
Indiana Code 20-5.5-8-2 currently prohibits a charter school from providing "home-based instruction." S.B. 598 guts this prohibition by inserting the word "solely" in front of it. This would allow charters to provide inexpensive home-based instruction to 99 percent of their students as long as 1 percent received non-home based instruction.
Homeschooling is good.
Charter schools are good.
S.B. 598 is bad, for everyone.
Daniel Stevens
Libertarian Party Kosciusko County
Warsaw
Good School
Editor, Times-Union:When I learned last week that my seventh-grade niece and a group of her friends had been threatened at school, I was taken back by the thought of children and their school life.
To be scared into thinking you were going to be beat up and made to feel unsafe in the hallways of your school is unimaginable. It really made me realize how much I take my son's teachers and school for granted. My son is a first-grader at Redeemer Lutheran and I could not be more pleased with the academic standards the school upholds. For my son to be greeted every morning by the staff, by name no less, and made to feel welcome every day is truly a blessing. They display a true and genuine interest and care for every child in the school regardless of their age or their faith. Although no one can place a value on the importance of education and safety of your children, Redeemer Lutheran is affordable and well worth every penny. With accredited teachers, great test scores and all-around love and care for my child, I can't imagine him going to school anywhere else. They make you feel like family. As we leave the care of our children every day in the hands of some one else, I for one am glad my son is at Redeemer Lutheran. His education and well-being is priceless and I know that every member of the staff feels the same way. I thank God every day for the awesome experience he has by attending the school.
Chris Morehouse
Warsaw
via e-mail
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