Legislative Intent

Ind. deregulation plan raises many questions.

A school deregulation bill designed to simplify Indiana’s education rules was so confusing that it had to be vastly clarified in the House of Representatives before being killed March 2. The House sponsor didn’t call it to a vote, he said, because a member of his party was absent, and he needed every vote he could get.

But Rep. Robert W. Behning, the sponsor, hasn’t given up. The Republican plans to find a new place for the legislation in a conference committee before the session closes this month.

Senate Bill 324 would have allowed school corporations to exempt themselves from certain education codes and regulations, ranging from policies on textbooks and curriculum to guidelines on counseling programs,AIDS...