After two months of debate in the House and Senate, House Bill 1315 died early Thursday morning.
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The bill would have allowed Ball State to assume responsibility for Muncie Community Schools beginning July 1.
"This result is very surprising, because both the House of Representatives and the Senate had approved this bill in recent weeks by very substantial margins," said President Geoffrey S. Mearns in a campus-wide email. "Apparently, the General Assembly simply ran out of time to consider the conference committee’s report, which was virtually identical to the bills both chambers had previously endorsed."
Now, the future of MCS will remain in the hands of an emergency management team — something which Mearns said could change the trajectory of MCS.
"This result is also disappointing because it means that, for the next several years, MCS will be governed by an emergency manager as a “distressed” public school system," Mearns said. "I am concerned that we may have squandered an historic opportunity to change the trajectory of MCS."
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