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Residents urge library board to restrict in‑branch student recruiting by charter and private schools
Summary
Four public commenters asked the Indianapolis Public Library Board to clarify and tighten policy on whether organizations that recruit K–12 students may set up tables or recruit inside library branches.
Multiple residents used the public‑comment period at the July meeting of the Indianapolis Public Library Board of Trustees to ask the board to adopt clearer rules on in‑branch recruitment by charter or other K–12 schools.
Corbin Havener, a teacher at IPS School 51 and member of the Indiana Education Association, said library spaces should not be used by organizations that actively recruit students. "We need to look at whether or not it is appropriate for representatives of nontraditional public schools to be recruiting students at any of our library branches," Havener told the board, arguing that the proliferation of charter schools…
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