Indiana will cut child care voucher rates to address a $225M gap, keeping 25,000 kids on waitlists through 2025 and raising concerns for working families and providers.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration is reducing child care vouchers, resulting in lower reimbursements for ...

Child care providers around Indiana will see reimbursement rate cuts of 10-35% as the state’s Family and Social Services ...

FSSA claims the cuts are necessary to close a $225 million funding gap, "created by the prior administration’s unsustainable ...

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration is cutting voucher reimbursement rates for the Child Care and ...

State leaders in Indiana are slashing funding for child care. Some believe this could force centers to shut down and parents to lose the care they rely on.

Participation in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program grew by about 8.5% in the 2024-25 school year—marking a slowdown after record-setting enrollment growth in prior years.

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It estimated that in the 2017-18 school year, around 3% of Indiana students, many in rural counties, lived more than 30 minutes from a charter, magnet, or voucher-accepting private school.

Indiana lawmakers have steadily expanded the program since it launched in 2011, making it one of the largest voucher systems in the nation — and among the first to go fully universal.

Even so, state spending reached nearly half a billion dollars on the private school voucher program, according to a new report released by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE).