'We will all suffer': Indianapolis districts respond to threat of funding cuts if they don't reopen

Indianapolis districts pushed back Friday on a leading lawmaker’s statement that schools will face reduced state funding if they don’t reopen classrooms for in-person instruction.

The threat forces schools to make “an impossible choice” between taking deep cuts they can’t afford or putting students, families, and teachers at risk of contracting COVID-19, wrote Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Aleesia Johnson in an op-ed.

“Our district would face $28 million in cuts as retribution for protecting our children’s health, and anyone who walked a day in our shoes over the past five months would not dare to suggest that schools could operate under the current context with less funding,” Johnson wrote.

https://in.chalkbeat.org/2020/8/7/21359321/we-will-all-suffer-indianapolis-districts-respond-to-threat-of-funding-cuts-if-they-dont-reopen