Indiana Parents Have More School Choices Than Ever — But Are Black Students Using Them?

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana parents have more power to decide where their children attend school than perhaps at any point in the state’s history. Yet thousands of families may not realize how many choices they have — or that changing schools doesn’t always have to wait until next August.

That matters now, with the 2026–27 school year underway.

Within the next several weeks, parents will begin seeing progress reports, test results and the first real evidence of whether their children are thriving, struggling or simply sitting in a classroom that isn’t working for them.

Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program allows state-funded scholarships to help pay tuition at participating private schools. Beginning with the 2026–27 school year, Indiana eliminated the program’s previous household-income ceiling, dramatically expanding who can participate.

In plain English, Indiana has opened the door to private-school choice much wider.

The question now is how many parents will walk through it.

Since President Obama who opposed school choice and seemed to advocate for separation of the races doing little if anything for the Black community that he proported to fight for, the education of minorities has been basically a brainwashing that today’s living white folk enslaved their ancestors or is seeking to hold back their progress.

When the number of wealthy black Americans some from athletics, medicine, law, business and entertainment have out paced all African nations by enormous percentages and continues in a country where equal opportunity and freedom reigns, some still choose blame others and be victims.

The Numbers Tell an Interesting Story

During the 2024–25 school year, 76,067 Indiana students received Choice Scholarships.

According to the Indiana Department of Education, 48,901 of those students were white — 64.3 percent of all recipients.

There were 13,335 Hispanic students, representing 17.5 percent of recipients. Only 6,714 were Black, and another 8.8 percent. Multiracial students represented 5.1 percent, and Asian students 4.1 percent.

Those numbers are worth considering alongside the racial makeup of Indiana’s overall student population, rather than simply observing that more than 27,000 scholarship recipients were nonwhite as being published.

And they raise a question Indiana should not be afraid to ask: Why aren’t more Black parents seeking out Indiana’s expanding educational alternatives for their children?

The numbers don’t answer that question, and neither will we.

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It s time in the Hoosier state to educate every child especially your own. The program exists; why not use it! The question why is worth asking.

School choice is supposed to mean that a child’s educational opportunities aren’t determined solely by the neighborhood in which his or her parents can afford to live. If a school isn’t providing the education a family expects, Indiana increasingly gives that family another option.

Whether families actually exercise that option is ultimately their decision to make.

You Don’t Necessarily Even Have to Wait Until Next Year

One of the most important things parents may not understand about school choice is timing.

Once September arrives, many families assume the decision has been made for another year.

Not necessarily.

Indiana has historically operated two Choice Scholarship application periods. The first covers students enrolling for the full school year. A second period has allowed qualifying students entering participating schools later to receive a scholarship for the second half of the year.

For 2025–26, that second application period ran from November 1 through January 15. Families considering a change during the current school year should verify the 2026–27 deadlines with the Indiana Department of Education or the private school they are considering.

The receiving school generally handles the Choice Scholarship application with the state.

That means a parent who discovers in October that something is seriously wrong doesn’t necessarily have to wait until August 2027 to act.

The First Report Card Matters

Maybe a student who was doing well suddenly starts bringing home Ds and Fs. Failing today is like dying of dehydration. It should approach zero from the right!

Maybe a child isn’t reading at grade level.

Maybe the classroom is chaotic or being asked to join a gang.

Maybe bullying has become a daily problem.

Or perhaps the student is doing fine academically but could accomplish much more in a different environment.

Those are reasons to ask questions.

Talk to the teacher. Talk to the principal. Most importantly, talk to your child.

If the problem can be corrected at the existing school, there may be no reason to leave.

But if it can’t, parents should at least know what else is available.

Private Doesn’t Automatically Mean Better but Truth is Truth, and HE reports it again and again.

School choice shouldn’t be confused with an assumption that every private school is better than every public school. It isn’t. Oftenb public options have better trained teachers and more resources or course selections.

Indiana has many excellent public schools. It has excellent private schools and charter schools as well. It has schools in every category that parents should examine carefully before enrolling their children.

Parents should look at academics, curriculum, discipline, class sizes, graduation rates and the overall school environment. Visit the building. Meet administrators. Talk to other parents.

Ask what tuition really costs after the scholarship. Ask about transportation. Ask about uniforms, fees, athletics and other expenses.

And ask whether there is actually a seat available.

The objective isn’t simply to move children from public schools into private ones.

It is to put children in schools where they have the best opportunity to learn.

Your Address Isn’t Your Only Option

Choice Scholarships are only part of Indiana’s education landscape.

Depending upon where a family lives and available capacity, parents can also investigate charter schools and transfers into other public-school corporations. Indiana has additional education programs for certain students with disabilities and programs designed to connect older students with career training, apprenticeships and other alternatives.

That is a very different educational landscape from the one Indiana parents faced a generation ago.

The traditional assumption was simple: You lived here, therefore your child went to this school.

Today, the better question may be: Which available school is best for my child?

Parents Have Homework, Too

The start of another school year isn’t only a test for students and teachers.

Parents have some homework of their own.

Look at the first progress report. Pay attention to attendance. Find out whether your child is reading and doing math at the appropriate level. Ask what is happening in the classroom instead of waiting until spring to discover that an entire year has slipped away.

If your child is doing well, support the school and the teachers helping make that happen.

If your child isn’t doing well, find out why.

And if the school itself appears to be part of the problem, investigate the alternatives.

That advice applies to parents in Carmel and Gary, Indianapolis and South Bend, Fort Wayne and Evansville, and everywhere in between.

Indiana has spent years expanding school choice. Beginning this year, the financial eligibility barrier has become even smaller.

The state’s own numbers nevertheless leave some interesting questions.

White students accounted for more than 64 percent of Choice Scholarship recipients in the latest available annual report. Black students accounted for fewer than 9 percent.

do, again why aren’t more Black parents seeking better educational opportunities when Indiana has made more of those choices available?

We don’t presume to know the answer.

But Indiana parents, educators and policymakers should not be afraid to ask the question.

Because ultimately this isn’t about vouchers, politics or protecting one kind of school from another. It is about accountability and false cries if prejudice in society, rather than choosing progress.

That being said, it is about something considerably more important: Where will each Indiana child regardless of race, have the best chance to learn and contribute to a better future society more united by actual knowledge instead of propaganda and divisive politics.