Billionaire-backed private interests are working to sabotage public schools in our city in order to sell them back to us for a profit. They have used millions of dollars, funneled through organizations like the Mind Trust, RISE Indy, and Stand for Children. Through cynical payoffs to people and politicians alike, these billionaire donors are defunding our public schools to the point of breaking, removing oversight, and creating a system where the community’s only choice is to try to make a broken system work.

• Moratorium on any new charter school authorizations in Indianapolis.
• Public funds and assets stay with the public school districts.
• No contracts, agreements or partnerships with organizations who are working against IPS and public school districts. (RISE Indy, Great Public Schools, The City Fund, The Mind Trust, Stand For Children, etc.)
• All contracts with OEI or IPS Innovation Schools must have a union neutrality clause. All IPS Innovation Schools must have the opportunity to unionize immediately.
• Funding that has been planned to go to a private voucher system through the Mayor’s office, should be utilized by public schools and community based organizations to increase poverty reduction and housing first programs.
• A redistribution of wealth from the top 1% for the benefit of poor and working-class communities.

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To learn more about so-called “education reform” that is privatizing public schools for profit, take a look at the following resources:

• Profit-Making: Report: How A Non-Profit Charter School Can Be Run For Profit, Forbes

• Mind Trust – The Mind Trust is a Trojan Horse That is Destroying IPS, kheprw.org

• Stand for Children – The Corporate Raid on Public Schools in Indianapolis, Diane Ravitch

• Teach For America – TFA is Bad for America, T. Ultican; How Teach for America Evolved into an Arm of the Charter School Movement, Pro Publica

• ALEC – ALECs Influence in Indiana Education, Dr. Gayle Cosby

• Democratic Party Beginnings – Blame the Democrats for The Mind Trust Model, Diane Ravtich

• Shock Doctrine – The K-12 Takeover: Charter Schools in New Orleans, Harpers
• ‘The Mind Trust’ exploits Black & Brown students in Indianapolis Education Fight., Wildstyle Pascall, Black Indy Live

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