kids are going back to school and there's a whole bunch of really big issues facing school districts

across Central Indiana, 93 WIBC. It is the Kendall and Casey show and Rob Casey's out today,

Ethan Hatcher, in for Casey. And when we talk public education, when we talk education period,

let's go to the one man. He is our expert source here on the drive hubler dot com hotline.

Tony Kennett joins us now. How are you, my friend?

Always stellar. All right. So before we get into these kind of specific big issues facing

very school districts across Central Indiana, I struggle with this, it's sort of a conundrum

because on one hand, the Republican Party in Indiana says, well, public schools are so out of

control. We've got to throw more money than ever before at the voucher system, the private

school system. We've got to get kids out of the public school system because it's so darn bad.

Then on the other hand, they throw more money than ever before at the public education system.

How do these two things square up? Well, they don't because the money's not being spent

appropriately, especially when you take a look at the way that public schools allocate those funds.

I have advocated that schools should be required to spend certain percentages of money in certain

areas so that schools can't take massive chunks of their budget and apply it to things that are

really stupid. And silly, for example, like astroturfing your football field, those are kinds of

things that don't help kids read. I don't know if you knew this, but the material your football

field is made out of has no impact on literacy. And it's just one of those things that it sounds

like common sense, but yet there are public schools in Indiana that struggle with spending their

money correctly. They may have equity officers who don't help kids read, but yet they make six

figure salaries and all kinds of nonsense like that. So the long and short of Indiana is

we have a Republican party that spends money like old people date. And the answer to that is

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