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My latest op-ed - A Vote For Stand For Children Indiana is a Stand Against IPS Children is being featured on MADVoters Indiana and I want to direct everyone directly on Madvoters.org - https://www.madvoters.org/post/a-vote-for-stand-for-children-indiana-is-a-stand-against-ips-children
Here is an excerpt:
Why is the house on fire?
Roughly 100 firefighters are convicted of arson each year in North America, with all of them being serial arsonists according to experts. Recently IPS Commissioner Angelia L. Moore argued in the Indianapolis Recorder that in regards to Indianapolis Public Schools:
“The house is on fire, and our children are inside. Are we going to stand outside arguing about whose water hose to use, who controls it, or where to aim it? Or are we going to come together to put out the fire and save our children?”
While I agree with Commissioner Moore’s declaration that IPS is indeed on fire, I believe she’s leaving out that the “arsonists” who started the fires in the first place now want to control the firefighting efforts. One of the lead arsonists, Stand For Children Indiana, funded 94% of Commissioner Moore’s current school board campaign. The real story is that Stand for Children Indiana’s advocacy against IPS and IPS families has brought $24 million in IPS budget cuts--with at least $20 million more to come--and loss of property tax revenue, control over its taxpayer-funded school facilities, and authority over student transportation. If this fire was literal instead of figurative, they’d be one of the 100 firefighters convicted of arson each year. Stand For Children Indiana was seeded 15 years ago by another notoriously exploitative education nonprofit called The Mind Trust to be a political arm to extend paternalism over Black communities. And for the last 15 years Stand For Children Indiana in partnership with The Mind Trust has worked tirelessly to manufacture crisis after crisis for IPS through its legislative partners in the Indiana Statehouse.
