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Indiana bills could cut Northwest Allen County Schools property revenue and reopen partisan school-board races, board told
Summary
Board members received an update on multiple Indiana General Assembly bills — including a property-tax relief package that would reduce Northwest Allen County Schools’ property tax revenue and a stalled bill to permit partisan school-board elections — and learned that a possible operating referendum amendment is pending.
Board member Ms. Schlatter updated the Northwest Allen County Schools Board of School Trustees on several bills pending in the Indiana General Assembly that could affect school funding and local elections.
The update focused on four measures: Senate Bill 287 (partisan school-board elections), Senate Bill 1 (a broad property tax relief and revenue-sharing package that now includes charter-school revenue language from SB 518), House Bill 1001 (the state budget), and House Bill 1427 (fiscal and administrative provisions including language that could allow the district to proceed with an operating referendum).
The board was told that SB 287 "is the one that would give potential board members the option to declare a party or to declare independent or, before they run for school board," Ms. Schlatter…
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