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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One thing we know about the federal tax credit is state law on required/provided services and definitions will matter. In opt-in/considering states, expect a flurry of legislative activity tweaking state code responding to Treasury regs. Public school lobby corps would do well to strategize now.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Who is this “other side” that Braun talks about. No examples?
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Four from @iuschoolofed.bsky.social.
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Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 31/01/2026
Are you a college student with an interest in government coverage? We are looking for a summer intern! indianacapitalchronicle.com/the-icc-is-l...
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The ICC is looking for a summer intern! • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Want to work for an exciting new nonprofit outlet focused on Statehouse news, policies, and politics? Come join the Indiana Capital Chronicle as a summer intern.Who we are: The digital outlet debuted…
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Disappointing. He knows better.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
No elections today in Indiana, but Terre Haute wins anyway.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Indiana will "prioritize families and children" by denying them child care assistance. Sounds familiar to those of us who remember Vietnam and "we had to destory the village to save it."
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wondering why, if Indiana is short prison beds, we’re providing 1,000 to the feds for ICE detention.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Key quote from IN Gov Mike Braun on mid-decade redistricting: “If we try to drag our feet as a state on it, probably, we’ll have consequences of not working with the Trump administration as tightly as we should.”
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
‘Del Valle’s research was flagged by the NIH for the words “trans” and “diverse,” according to Grant Witness. The project’s abstract refers to cellular transmission at various points and “diverse modes of b-sheet packing.”’ indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/12/c...
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Canceled federal grants cost Indiana institutions millions in disrupted projects • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Combined, the 21 projects across four higher education institutions total more than $24.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Has he referred himself for election fraud prosecution for voting in one county while claiming a homestead tax credit in another?
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Indiana has cut spending on education of all types. In fact, our state hasn’t spent this small a share of our GDP on education for several decades”: @profhicks.bsky.social www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
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We learned the wrong lesson from the China Shock — and Indiana is paying for it | Opinion
The China Shock taught us that education matters for economic survival. Instead of learning that lesson, Indiana keeps cutting education spending.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thanks to @indianacitizen.org for posting the story on Indiana's 1995 redistricting fight that I did for @limestonepost.bsky.social. indianacitizen.org/limestone-po...
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Limestone Post story: Former Legislator Mark Kruzan Talks Redistricting, Then and Now - THE INDIANA CITIZEN
This story was originally published by the Limestone Post. By Steve Hinnefeld Limestone Post September 2, 2025 Republican legislators, worried their party will lose its majority in the next election, ...
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“Indiana is one of at least five states that rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews.” Frim @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/mate...
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“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out
Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In Indiana, nearly all the 300+ private schools that receive vouchers are religious and exempt from tax reporting. There’s no way to know how much self-dealing takes place.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Republicans get <60% of the vote in Indiana but control 100% of US Senate seats, 78% of US House seats, 80% of state Senate seats and 70% of state House seats. How much more can they gerrymander?
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Rules for thee, not for me.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“Transgender people are under attack here in Indiana — and all across the country — because, to put it bluntly: Gay people aren't scary enough anymore”: Rep Ed Clere www.wfyi.org/news/article...
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Transgender youth rally draws bipartisan support and push for civic action
Indiana lawmakers and advocates rallied at the Statehouse to support transgender youth and push for civic engagement after a Supreme Court decision upheld restrictions on gender-affirming care.
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MJ Slaby @mjslaby.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Calling all journalism interns and college students in the Indy area. Join us for a panel about how to land your first journalism job: www.eventbrite.com/e/journalism...
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Journalism First Job Panel Chat
Come chat with professionals in the journalism field and get insider tips on landing your first job!
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“It’s as if you’re saying the minority community were never here. You never existed”: Rep. @cherrishpryor.bsky.social
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Outrageous
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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“One cannot exaggerate how dangerous and unhistorical this ruling is.”
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Hoosier Action @hoosieraction.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Senate is trying to push forward dangerous Medicaid cuts THIS weekend! Please CALL your Senators TODAY & voice your opposition to Medicaid cuts to fund a billionaire tax giveaway! We've got phone numbers and a call script on our website 👇 www.hoosieraction.org/medicaid
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Indiana spent nearly $500 million on private school vouchers in 2024-25, per a new report from the state education department. More details in this post: inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/i...
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Indiana voucher program cost: $497 million
Indiana awarded nearly a half billion dollars in private school vouchers in the 2024-25 school year, according to a report posted this month by the Indiana Department of Education. That’s a 13.2% i…
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“Congressional Republicans fear the sort of retribution that would not simply oust them from office but would also threaten their lives and those of their staff and their families”
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“We deserve to know what merited the president’s decision to launch the attacks without the support of Congress. “But how can we expect clear and honest answers from a man who lies as easily as he breathes?”
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Who is new IU trustee Brian Eagle? @clairerafford.bsky.social at Mirror Indy with a story i hoped to see. mirrorindy.org/indiana-univ...
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What (little) we know about Brian Eagle, IU’s third new trustee
Attention has largely been paid to Jim Bopp Jr. and Sage Steele.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Once again, the Braun administration blames the Holcomb administration when a serious problem develops on its watch.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Still waiting to see what happens to the school’s founder.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
We really need to dumb down this presidency thing.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This starts to seem like a pattern. Roob blames predecessors for Medicaid and child care messes. Beckwith blames them loss of SUN Bucks kids' food program. Spox blames them for Public Access Counselor problems.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really good journalism by @tyfenwick.bsky.social at Mirror Indy.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A recent study from Indiana finds that attending virtual charter high schools was associated with “large, negative impacts” on graduation rates and college enrollment: inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/s...
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Study: ‘large, negative effects’ for Indiana virtual charter schools
Parents who are thinking about enrolling their child in a virtual high school may want to reconsider. A recent study finds that attending virtual charter high schools was associated with “large, ne…
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“The bottom line: not only will the program bring vouchers to all fifty states, including states that have rejected them, but the deep-pocketed donors at the helm of the school-privatization Rolls Royce will now be able to profit off of their efforts to dismantle public schools.”
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Sheila writes about private school vouchers and Christian nationalism, quoting Q&A with @joshcowenmi.bsky.social for @indianacitizen.org
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Once again, you can’t make this stuff up.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Thanks to @indianacitizen.org for publishing my interview with @joshcowenmi.bsky.social on vouchers and their connection to Christian nationalism: indianacitizen.org/school-vouch...
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SCHOOL VOUCHER Q&A: Using state tax dollars to pay private school tuition ‘a huge part’ of Christian nationalist agenda, scholar says - THE INDIANA CITIZEN
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen May 7, 2025 Michigan State University education policy professor Josh Cowen has spent two decades studying and writing about voucher programs, in which state tax...
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Good explanation of what’s at stake with the SCOTUS religious charter school case.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
There is no bottom for these people.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Private schools won’t get more money if IN makes its voucher program universal. The extra state spending (c. $100M) would go to families whose kids are already in private schools. inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...
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Voucher expansion would be a handout to the wealthy
Half of the funding increase that Indiana legislators allocate to K-12 education next year may go not to public schools or charter schools or even to private schools. It may go into the pockets of …
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Hoosier Action @hoosieraction.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🧟ZOMBIE BILL ALERT🧟: Stop the Criminalization of Homelessness! We need your help to stop a dangerous zombie amendment on SB 197, which criminalizes homelessness. By taking action together, we killed this bill once, and we need your help to do it again!
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Also, what’s the status of Todd Rokita’s lawsuit seeking to have Section 504 declared unconstitutional?
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thanks to @wfhb and local LWV for giving me a chance to talk about vouchers. wfhb.org/news-public-...
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Civic Conversations Talks to Steve Hinnefeld on School Vouchers - WFHB
This month, the League of Women Voters-BMC, Civic Conversations talks to Steve Hinnefeld, author of
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
‘“You cannot react in 10 minutes, so you cannot protect your assets in 10 minutes,” Johns said.’ Does “assets” mean peoples lives? Children’s? www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
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Military contractor to spend $50 million in southern Indiana to test hypersonic weapons
Company executives said they expect to hire more than 100 people, from machinists to engineers, who will earn an average of $80,000 a year.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“A bill that would have required the district to share transportation resources with charters didn’t advance earlier this session. But Rep. Robert Behning, the Indianapolis Republican who authored the bill, told Chalkbeat he intends to insert language from that bill into other legislation.” 1
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Good explanation of what’s happening at the Statehouse with IPS and charter schools.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great reporting by @wdownard.bsky.social. Note: FGA was also behind the push last year to weaken child labor standards, which IN did.
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Steve Hinnefeld @stevehinnefeld.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Watching the IN legislature school funding subcommittee hearing. Not sure, but I don't think I'd have the nerve to say publicly that my spouse and I make >$270K and the state needs to give us $20K to send keep sending our kids to private schools.
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