{"id":4493,"date":"2023-09-21T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodenforindiana.com\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:42:28","slug":"doden-calls-on-indiana-chamber-to-drop-school-consolidation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodenforindiana.com\/doden-calls-on-indiana-chamber-to-drop-school-consolidation-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Doden Calls on Indiana Chamber to Drop School Consolidation Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FORT WAYNE, IN<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Eric Doden, Republican candidate for governor, today called on the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to reexamine its long-time effort to consolidate rural and small town school corporations of less than 2,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to incoming Chamber President and CEO Vanessa Green Sinders, Doden said that while the goals of the policy might have some merit, eliminating&nbsp;<strong>\u201csmall public school districts through consolidation will be seen as a death knell for the millions of Hoosiers who live in small towns and rural communities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chamber\u2019s recently released Indiana Prosperity 2035 plan calls for a reduction \u201cby half the number of very small school districts with enrollments below 2,000 students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe need a vision for Indiana that reverses the population decline and makes our small cities and towns a destination to live, work and raise a family as opposed to plans that are perceived to give up on them entirely,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Doden wrote.&nbsp;<strong>\u201cFor far too long, our state has ignored our small and rural communities and had no plan for them, only giveaways to corporations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doden has called for Indiana to adopt a new bold approach to economic development that treats all 92 counties as communities of opportunity. Doden\u2019s Indiana Main Street Initiative would take ten percent of what Indiana spends on economic development \u2013 around $100 million per year \u2013 and redirect it to small towns and rural communities creating more than $16 billion in economic growth in these communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cLobbying for consolidation, no matter how noble the aim, sends the wrong message to the two million Hoosiers who choose to live, work and raise their families in small communities and is ideologically inconsistent with our shared principles of school choice and local control,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Doden said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A copy of Doden\u2019s letter to the Chamber is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dodenforindiana.com\/drop-school-consolidation-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read Doden\u2019s entire Indiana Main Street Initiative plan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dodenforindiana.com\/indiana-main-street-initiative-white-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WAYNE, IN&nbsp;&#8211; Eric Doden, Republican candidate for governor, today called on the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to reexamine its long-time effort to consolidate rural and small town school corporations of less than 2,000 students. 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