Michael Murray, school board member for Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District, served as the school corporation’s voting delegate at the 2024 Delegate Assembly of the Indiana School Boards Association.
The ISBA Delegate Assembly convened at 8 a.m. on Sept. 23 in the Indiana Convention Center to conduct the annual business of the Association. Delegates approved the 2025 Association budget and the recommendations of the ISBA Nominating Committee naming a slate of officers and directors for the ISBA Board of Directors.
In addition, the Delegate Assembly voted to ratify the 2025 Legislative Priorities and Foundational Statements as presented by the ISBA Legislative Committee.
ISBA’s school funding priorities as approved by the Delegate Assembly for the 2025 budget session include:
• Tuition support increases at rates above inflation
• $10 million annual increase in the Indiana Secured Schools Safety Grant
• $10 million annual increase in Summer School funding
• $5 million annual increase in English Language Learner funding
• Grant funding for school corporations to spend on student support services, including career coaching, school counselor programs, social workers, mental and behavioral health services, and school nurses
Each school board in Indiana with membership in the Indiana School Boards Association is entitled to send one school board member to the Delegate Assembly to consider and vote on the business matters of the Association. Currently, all 290 school corporations in the State of Indiana are members of ISBA.
“The school board members who served as delegates this year are to be commended for their dedication and service,” said ISBA Executive Director Terry Spradlin. “Their decisions will benefit school board members across the state and will help ensure that their membership association continues to thrive.”
