Delay of IPS funding vote could mean layoffs across the district

A major delay of a multi-million-dollar school-funding plan could mean layoffs are coming to Indianapolis Public Schools. Monday night IPS announced that they will not be asking for a vote on the tax hike in May as originally planned. The district was counting on raising more than $725 million from the hike over an eight-year period that they could invest in teachers and upgrading school buildings. The vote now won’t take place until November, which IPS Superintendent Lewis Ferebee says means they will now have to consider layoffs in the district.