10/07/2026
Public school funding in Indiana is facing a historic squeeze, and the roots go deeper than you might think. In 2008, Public Law 146 fundamentally shifted how our schools are funded, introducing property tax caps and forcing districts to rely heavily on local referendums to keep their doors open. Now, in 2026, the passage of Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SEA 1) is stripping an estimated $744.4 million from public schools statewide.
Add in the expansion of universal private vouchers, new limits on when districts can run referendums, and mandates to share local tax dollars with charter schools, and our classrooms are operating under severe, destabilizing strain. For FTCSC, the only district in Marion County operating without an active referendum, these state-level cuts hit our growing township twice as hard. And when the state doesn’t fund our classrooms, the burden falls on our educators, forcing them to rely on Amazon Wishlists just to get basic supplies.
Slide through for the full history of Indiana’s education funding crisis and exactly how I plan to protect FTCSC! Vote Komal for FTCSC School Board! Learn more at votekomal.com.