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Indiana Produced Documentary Communicating Challenges Public School Systems Face
Indiana Department of Public Education To Show Rise Above The Mark
(New Albany, IN September 10, 2014) – The Indiana Department of Public Education will be presenting Rise
Above The Mark at the upcoming membership meeting. The meeting will begin at 2p.m. at the NAFC
Education Support Center located at 2801 Grant Line Road, New Albany, IN 47150.
Rise Above the Mark is a documentary produced by Dr. Rocky Killion, Superintendent of West Lafayette
Community School Corporation. The purpose of the film is to communicate the challenges public school
teachers face today. Peter Coyote provides narration to tell the story of what happens when politics enters the
classroom and public schools become boxed in by current corporate reforms.
A panel discussion will follow the viewing of the documentary. Panelists include:
 Bruce Hibbard
 Rocky Killion
 Julian Smith
 Moderator- Roger Fierst
All Indiana Coalition of Public Education meetings are open to members as well as anyone in the community
who supports public school education.
The Indiana Coalition of Public Education is a new, bi-partisan non-profit organization. Its mission is to focus
public tax dollars on the K-12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana
General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter
schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for-profit managers in place to take a
profit from operating public schools, and privatize public schools through any other means.
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