The Republican education-reform movement in Indiana has suffered a defeat, and honestly, they deserved it. Even with a supermajority in both houses, they failed to pass “Education Matters” bills HB1134 and SB167. The cause of this defeat was threefold: the lackluster omnibus nature of the bills, incompetence during committee and testimonies, and the absence of even an elementary communications strategy.
The GOP has the opportunity to make education a winning issue, but we have to do our policy-making right if that hope is to manifest in reality. Thankfully, among the wreckage of these bills, there are lessons to be learned.
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