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Committee advances bill to create Indianapolis Public Education Corporation, authorizes narrow referendum window
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee passed HB 1423, which would form a municipal corporation to coordinate school facilities and transportation across the Indianapolis Public Schools footprint; members debated referendum timing and charter funding before the bill passed 14–8.
Representative Behning told the committee HB 1423 would implement recommendations from the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance (ILEA) report and create a municipal corporation — the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation — to coordinate transportation and create a single facilities authority for the Indianapolis school city. He said the panel’s report (available through LSA) ran about 500 pages and the final proposal passed the alliance by an 8–1 vote.
The bill would repeal the 'dollar law' within the IPS footprint and let the new municipal corporation study and recommend facility decisions, develop performance…
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