The Indiana Board of Education has denied three voucher-accepting private schools’ requests to delay consequences for their low school grades.
The three schools are Fort Wayne’s Lutheran South Unity School and, in Indianapolis, Central Christian Academy and Turning Point Schools. They had taken advantage of a law signed recently by Gov. Eric Holcomb allowing them to ask the board for one-year waivers to accept new voucher students and additional state funding.
Voucher schools that receive D or F school grades for consecutive years face consequences that can include being unable to accept new voucher students until school grades improve.
The board voted 5-3 Wednesday to grant the waivers but the schools needed six yes votes. The schools will be unable to accept new voucher students in the upcoming school year.
