Property tax changes to eliminate transfer tuition
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Posted: 7:05 AM Sep 2, 2008
Property tax changes to eliminate transfer tuition
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana's public schools next year will largely no longer be able to charge tuition to transfer students who live in other districts.
Reporter: The Associated Press
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Indiana's public schools next year will largely no longer be able to charge tuition to transfer students who live in other districts.

Schools have charged the parents of such students as much as $5,000 a year, but an unintended consequence of the state's new property tax law has some worried about schools being tempted to recruit top students or athletes.

Indiana University education researcher Terry Spradlin tells The Indianapolis Star that he expects many gray areas as schools decide which transfer students to accept -- including whether to enroll any at all.

Senate Tax Committee Chairman Luke Kenley of Noblesville said he expected the Legislature to take a serious look at the issue. He says it is not fair to foist such a major change on schools from an accidental change in the law.
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