The Star gets it right on IPS ballot measure

In today's Indianapolis Star, the editorial board supports the $278 million bond issue for Indianapolis Public Schools. (Read the editorial.) Although we are at odds most of the time with the Star's editorial board, I'm in complete agreement with them on this endorsement.

The cost savings for the taxpayers in the long run will be substantial. Doing these projects now instead of later saves money because the costs of goods and services always increase from year to year. Also, there are always just tremendous pressures associated with public schools, and with IPS in particular as the largest public school system in the our state.

I know, having served as a school-board member and president of the board of a large urban public school system, that we should always strive for the best conditions for learning that we can afford. The public schools don't have the luxury of picking and choosing students as do the charter schools. Because of that, we as the citizens of a community should want to give everybody an opportunity to learn.