INDIANA– The Indiana Democratic Party released the following statement from Chair Karen Tallian on the Indiana House of Representatives passing Senate Bill 287. The bill would require school board elections in Indiana to be conducted on a partisan basis. It now goes back to the Senate for further consideration.
“State Republican legislators voted today to dismantle Indiana’s decades-long tradition of nonpartisan school board elections. This is a system that is used in over 40 states across the country to keep national partisan politics out of our local school boards.
Legislators received hundreds of calls and heard hours of testimony against this bill. The Republican supermajority pushed through this bad bill anyway, voting to insert partisan politics into our education system.
“Hoosier school board members include community servants and local leaders. They do not wish to be involved in the same partisan politics that consume Washington and Indianapolis.
“There were no Democratic votes for this dangerous proposal. Even many Republicans voted against this bill in both the House and Senate. Hoosier Democrats understand that our school boards should be focused on improving education and opportunity for our Hoosier kids – not national politics.”
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