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In rare bipartisan unity, lawmakers pass state budget with robust K-12 spending

APRIL 23, 2021 | by Kaitlin Lange, Arika Herron | INDYSTAR (INDIANA)

By Kaitlin Lange and Arika Herron, includes “In their final hours at the Indiana Statehouse Thursday, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the two-year state budget filled with one-time spending and an unexpected amount of new education dollars. In a rare move, nearly every Democrat voted for the $37.4 billion two-year budget drafted largely by Republican leaders, who have supermajorites in the Statehouse.”

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