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This month, the League of Women Voters-BMC, Civic Conversations talks to Steve Hinnefeld, author of the nationally recognized blog School Matters, which can be found at https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/. Steve is a longtime journalist and writer in Bloomington. In the podcast, Jim and Steve discuss how the school voucher program has evolved and its impact on Indiana’s public schools. Steve explains how vouchers work and how they have become universal due to last year’s legislative expansion of eligibility requirements. Governor Braun’s recent budget proposal removed all income restrictions from the voucher program. “Indiana is spending a lot of money on school vouchers that could be spent on public school funds,” said Hinnefeld. “Those funds could be a significant increase in funding for public schools.”
