Michelle Fullhart
mfullhart.bsky.social
Michelle Fullhart
@mfullhart.bsky.social
Former HSE Schools board member, life-long teacher, learner, wife, mom & advocate of public education, literacy, equity, STEAM & financial literacy.
Two birds, one stone!

IU tailgate and No Kings protest - sadly, no Soros money to pay for the signs or tailgate food and drink!

Go Democracy!!
Go Hoosiers!!
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There’s an @HSESchools Board mtg tomorrow, 06/10 at 6 pm. You can view the agenda here: go.boarddocs.com/in/hses/Boar...
June 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Someone on the bird app came after me & said I was spewing propaganda w/my post. I challenged them to tell me the pro-public ed bills put forth by the IN GOP this year. I haven’t heard a response.

Does anyone know of any GOP bills that support public schools? I’ve only heard of the awful ones.
January 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
McKibben predicted the enrollment decline when the class of 2022 graduated since they tracked them from kdg & studied the changing demographics. The exec summary from their report 12 years ago, which can be is shown below, indicating just how accurate they have been.

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January 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
There's an HSE Schools Board mtg this Wed., Jan. 22, 6 pm at the HSE Admin Building. Agenda> shorturl.at/2jChg

There are actually 2 mtgs -a Board of Finance mtg that must be completed annually is first.

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January 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
And we wonder why the murder of a Health Insurance CEO is celebrated by many.

We need Mark Cuban @costplusdrugs.com to take on the healthcare system.
December 21, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Love their tea, but…

Anyone know if this true for all McAlister’s Deli franchises & not just in Indiana?

Is there an explanation on the tip screen about this?

At POS transactions, customers believe tips r going to those who’ve served them who r the lowest paid.

This is super shady.
December 18, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Dug out some old newspapers saved by relatives this Thanksgiving. This is the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette from June 5, 1965.

Note the full page ad paid for by lots of businesses for the Prevent Polio “Eat Your Vaccine” day. Just 2 drops on a lump of sugar!
November 29, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Tentative HSE pay scales for 2025 are shown below. The bottom of the scale is $48,500 and the top is $93,201.

So for those who like to talk about the evils of teachers’ unions, they haven’t been successful in keeping teacher salaries in line with inflation.

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November 19, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Starting salary for a beginning teacher with a Bachelor’s degree in 1970 was $7,400. Using the inflation calculator at data.bls.gov that is the equivalent of $60,203.96 in today’s 💰

The top of the scale at 17 years & a Master’s degree was $13,320. In today’s 💰, that’s equal to $108,367.13.

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November 19, 2024 at 12:13 AM
As the news of a tentative teachers’ contract in HSE has come out, I found this salary schedule from 1970 for East Allen County Schools in my mom’s things. She taught in that school system for 29 years with most of it being as a kindergarten teacher. EACS is just north of Fort Wayne.

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November 19, 2024 at 12:13 AM