Today the board decided to delay after the 'governance team has not been able to come to a shared level of agreement regarding the operating referendum' IPS Superintendent Dr. Johnson said in a statement.
INDIANAPOLIS — The IPS Superintendent Dr. Aleesia Johnson made a statement after voting was delayed on the operating referendum for the Rebuilding Stronger plan that was supposed to take place Saturday morning.
As many of you know, I’m not just the IPS superintendent, but also an IPS mom with all three of my children attending schools in our district. They all play sports, and I’m always struck by this reflection that the name on their jersey matters so much when they’re on the field or the court, but that name doesn’t matter when they leave it. For the vast majority of our students, they are still Black. Or Latino. Or Poor.
If the children are all our children, then our system needs to reflect that idea. If we believe it takes all of us to accomplish the greater good of young people set up for success, then we need to be able to have very hard conversations and ask ourselves what needs to change in our community to make it so.
There are those who do their work in the name of equity but have financially supported and aligned organizationally with legislators in our statehouse who, in 2023, have sponsored or supported bills that target groups of students who are already among the most vulnerable in our schools and propose things like prohibiting organizations from diversity training and awareness.
We won’t all agree on how we get to this better place. In fact, I’m sure we won’t. But, right now, in Indianapolis, we have lost sight of the concept of the village when organizations publicly declare that they cannot support funding for well-documented and much-overdue improvements needed for our childrens’ schools and question if they need access to expanded offerings like algebra and music. That is concerning.
I still believe that, so I’m not only asking for our community’s support to pass our capital referendum, but I’m also calling on our community and its leaders to come together and do some hard things and have some hard conversations.
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