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If you want an independent voice that puts the needs of all Indianapolis Public School children over profiteering education experiments, Alan Schoff is your choice. The Charter school experiment has caused massive disruptions in our family’s lives, tearing holes in our community fabric, increasing teen violence, and driving top teaching talent out of our schools. If you are tired of seeing these privately-run operations drain precious resources from our public school classrooms, then please vote for me, Alan Schoff for IPS Schools Board of Commissioners District 1, east and near-southeast of downtown.

It’s time to let Indianapolis Public Schools heal after the onslaught of abuse from outside forces.

For 12 years, my family and I have been a part of the IPS Community as students, as parents, as school volunteers, as superintendent community advisor, but also as witnesses and victims of the massive turmoil inflicted on Indianapolis children that is resulting in no provable education gains while segregating students. The success of Charter schools in Indianapolis is only marketing and recruiting, a plan and business strategy focused on low-income families. IPS school population has lost 1/2 of its Black student population since 2017 through the marketing of unsubstantiated claims of improvements in opportunity gaps for children of color. Perhaps this is why: “Noliwe Rooks – Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the end of Public Schools“

Currently, all seven board members were financed by white billionaires, specifically Reed Hastings CEO of Netflix, Jim Walton of Walmart, Michael Bloomberg publisher of Bloomberg News, and others. Millions of dollars are channeled through former Mayor Bart Peterson’s RISE Indy PAC and Stand for Children while this Don of the Indiana Education Mafia Coalition self-deals more education business by buying political favor of the Republican supermajority in the state legislature. This is not about educating our children.

I’m the independent candidate on the ballot this November for the District 1 of the governing board of Indianapolis Public Schools. Never been paid to work for a PAC nor paid to run for office. My opponent is a proxy for the people she works for – Stand for Children, RISE Indy, and The Mind Trust – all run by wealthy white people who use irrelevant, racially charged talking points and bully tactics to force their choice on communities they don’t even live in.

While I can’t make policy changes alone, at the very least I can be a voice for the silenced majority in this district by calling out the corruption for what it is and fighting against the mayhem that disrupts student learning. For the record, 31 of these Charter schools have closed in the past 22 years, some in the middle of the year even, leading to more turmoil and untold students falling through the cracks. Tens of thousands of students and families have had their lives disrupted through unnecessary school closures and management changes that have have caused more harm than good. Let’s focus on improving our actual public schools instead of playing the privatization game of the political Charter school industry that is fulfilling Project 2025 education goals.

Make it make sense. Vote for stable, nurturing learning environments, better community engagement, and arts for all children in the district boundaries.
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