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Hypocrite Highlights
Gayle Cosby has been a relentless critic of charter schools, especially while she was enjoying the attention during her time on the IPS school board, claiming they “destabilize” school districts.
Yet, while publicly attacking and calling for the destruction of charter schools, she sent her own children to Herron High School—one of Indianapolis’s top charter schools—where her son graduated just last year.
Now, she’s trying to block the expansion of successful charter schools like the one her kids attended, denying other families the same opportunities her family enjoyed.
Elite schools for Gayle Cosby, but empty promises for kids who aren’t part of the elite IPS board or executive team. Since she’s running for IPS school board again this year, it’s time we call her out on her hypocrisy!
He refused to send his kids to Indianapolis Public Schools:
- He sent his kids – son Tim and daughters Kathleen and Jennifer – to St. Thomas Aquinas for K-8 and Brebeuf Jesuit High School, providing them an elite private education.
- His grandchildren are also going to these elite private schools
Despite the advantages these elite schools provided to his children and even now his own grandchildren, Delaney actively opposes working families from the same opportunities.
For years, Ed Delaney has fought against charter schools, blocking laws that would give low-income families a shot at better education, all while his own children benefited from elite private schools.
From opposing legislation that would allow public charter schools to utilize unused public school buildings to attacking programs designed to help working-class families access the same private schools his own family attends, Delaney is the epitome of a politician who enjoys privileges he works to deny others.
The executive leadership team at Indianapolis Public Schools is steeped in hypocrisy. Nearly every executive in charge has chosen to send their own children to private, charter, or innovation schools—schools they actively promote for their families while denying those same opportunities to the families they are paid to serve. Is there anyone on the IPS leadership team who isn’t sending their kids to elite schools, while making sure your kids don’t get the same opportunity?
- Dr. Aleesia Johnson, Superintendent: Sent her children to Edison School of the Arts, an IPS innovation school.
- Andrew Strope, Deputy Superintendent: Chose CFI, an IPS choice magnet school, for his children.
- Shelby Roby-Terry, Chief Communications & Engagement Officer: Sent her daughter to Herron, a charter school.
- William Murphy, Chief Operations Officer: Originally enrolled his children in Cold Spring, an elite IPS innovation school, but later decided that no school in all of IPS was up to his standards and moved them to private schools.
- Weston Young, Chief Financial Officer: Enrolled his children at Thomas Gregg, an IPS innovation school.
Why do IPS executives feel entitled to privileges they work so hard to withhold from the very community they are supposed to uplift?
The double standard is blatant: they secure the best options for their own, while restricting access for everyone else.
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