

A year of transportation for each additional child cost $405.

Parents who signed a transportation contract with CIESC received a year of transportation to and from school for one child for $475 and a $20 non-refundable 1 Franklin Township sold its equipment to CIESC for one dollar. Franklin Township then transferred its transportation equipment, including its buses, to Central Indiana Educational Service Center ( CIESC ).1 CIESC, in turn, offered transportation services to Franklin Township parents.

Facts and Procedural History In 2010 the Franklin Township School Board voted to eliminate student transportation for the 2011-2012 school year. Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp., 844 N.E.2d 481 (Ind. Though this case raises a number of legal questions, one is of primary importance: did Franklin Township act unconstitutionally with respect to student transportation? Applying our Supreme Court s reasoning in Nagy v. In November 2011 township parents filed a class-action lawsuit against the school corporation, challenging the constitutionality of its actions. Franklin Township later contracted with an educational service center to provide student transportation for an annual fee. Franklin Township Community School Corporation ( Franklin Township ) one of a number of school corporations hit hardest by the new property-tax caps responded by eliminating student transportation for the 2011-2012 school year. 49D02-1111-PL-42082 JOPINION - FOR PUBLICATION VAIDIK, Chief Judge Case Summary Indiana s public schools lost hundreds of millions of dollars when new propertytax caps went into effect in 2010. 49A02-1301-PL-44 APPEAL FROM THE MARION SUPERIOR COURT The Honorable Theodore M. FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION, Appellee/Defendant. NAGLE Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Indianapolis, Indiana Jun 10 2014, 9:15 am IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF INDIANA LORA HOAGLAND, Appellant/Plaintiff, vs. FOR PUBLICATION ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT: ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: IAN W.
