Budget & finance
A record number of school districts are seeking property tax increases this November. Search for details on your school district’s ballot question using our tool.
The number of school districts asking voters to approve property tax increases has reached a record high. Do you support your school district’s ballot question?
The all-time high stems from a property tax reform passed in 2025 that’s estimated to cost school districts millions of dollars. State lawmakers also restricted when districts could put a question on the ballot.
Decatur Township schools changed its school schedule to help students, but the cost savings can’t be ignored as schools face financial challenges and look to convince voters to approve a tax measure.
The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation, a new organization, is considering putting a tax increase on the ballot in November to fund Indianapolis schools. Here’s the breakdown of options and how the public can weigh in.
The district’s budget trims $7 million from next year’s school budgets Even so, IPS will have a $5 million dollar deficit.
Property tax reform, a mandate to share tax revenue with charter schools, and other factors have put new fiscal strains on the district.
Voters approved a referendum to fund schools in 2018. But a lot has changed since then.
The endowment is waiting to approve a grant request from Indianapolis Public Schools until the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance finalizes its recommendations for the district.
If approved, the state’s plan would go into effect for the 2026-27 school year.
It will be up to states to opt in to the new program, which could help fill the gap between rising private school tuition costs and vouchers that families receive.
Amid state budget troubles, alternative schools lost more than $4 million in funding.
Preschools are increasing their rates as Indiana makes significant cuts to its On My Way PreK program.
Schools received a modest increase in the state budget. But Marion County education leaders are still trying to figure out what sweeping changes to local property taxes will mean.
The amended bill advanced by a House committee would also break up the Union School Corporation.
Indiana schools use federal E-Rate funding and the state’s internet connectivity grant to support faster internet needed for technology use in the classroom.
Programs like Indiana Learns that relied on federal emergency funding are in jeopardy, but there’s still time for families to use the grants until March.
Almost three-quarters of the students who didn’t pass the state reading test and were retained in third grade in 2023 got subsidized meals.
Two districts are asking for a new kind of funding to support school safety.
Residents in Hammond will vote next week on continuing a property tax increase to give more money to local schools. For the first time, that includes charter schools.