Parents across several Indianapolis Public Schools campuses say budget-driven staffing moves are already chipping away at elementary students’ arts and physical-education time, and they worry the cuts will deepen as the district locks in next year’s budget. Families report clubs getting canceled, teachers being reassigned or leaving, and school leaders offering few clear answers. That uncertainty has sent parents to recent school board meetings and into administrators’ inboxes, asking what exactly is coming for their kids.
Families at Theodore Potter School 74 and Eliza A. Blaker School 55 told reporters that strings and archery clubs have stopped meeting and that at least one art teacher left after the district began sharing “specials” teachers among buildings,…..