Lawmakers Say Indiana Public School Enrollment Jump Partly Identified

Legislators say they’ve solved part of the mystery of how enrollment in Indiana schools has jumped by more than two thousand students.

The loophole that allowed it to happen could be plugged soon.

State law allows parents of four-year-olds to ask their school district’s permission to send their four-year-old to kindergarten early, if the child is ready to start school.

But Senate Appropriations Chairman Ryan Mishler (R-Bremen) says about 500 students were admitted early, then repeated kindergarten the next year and pumped up the student count.