Glenda Ritz, Indiana state superintendent of public instruction, and Matthew Tully, Indianapolis Star political columnist, speak Monday night during "A Dialogue on Education in Indiana" inside Carroll Auditorium at Saint Mary's College. Staff photo by Robert Franklin
SOUTH BEND -- Hoosier children living in poverty often attend two or three different schools in a single year, said Glenda Ritz, Indiana’s state superintendent of public instruction.
That’s because their families move when they can’t pay the rent, she said Monday during a public presentation at Saint Mary’s College.
Currently, data about how a particular child is doing and what their needs are don’t travel with the child, the superintendent said. “The more mobility, the greater the chance the student isn’t going to get what they need at the next school,” she said.
Ritz, a Democrat who was elected to office last year after 34 years as a teacher, described her goal of putting a grassroots system of support in place to help children. That system must include school improvement plans contained in an easily accessible electronic template and information about individual children that easily will travel with the child, she said.
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