An Indiana House committee has rejected a Democratic proposal to direct $291 million in unexpected state tax revenue toward one-time teacher pay bonuses.
The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines against the proposal, going along with GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb's request that the revenue go toward paying cash rather than borrowing money for several planned college campus construction projects.
Democrats argued the money would be better spent on addressing the state's lagging teacher pay.
Another legislative committee, meanwhile, advanced bills to delay any penalties to schools from lower student scores on the state's new ILEARN standardized test and to end the mandatory use of those test results in teacher evaluations.
