Devon knows the difference between spending money and investing it. Quick patches cost more down the road, so she brings a prevention-first lens to every decision for District 29.
School quality is the first thing families check when they’re choosing a community.
Public schools are being squeezed from three directions:
Private and charter alternatives draw from the same funding pool as the public schools that educate 90% of Indiana students.
Devon will push to require funding for alternatives to come from a separate appropriation so public-school dollars remain in public classrooms.
Noblesville voters made their preference for nonpartisan school boards clear, but state lawmakers overrode that local choice.
Devon will push to reverse partisan school board elections and restore the community’s authority to choose how its schools are governed.
Public schools must provide special education, transportation, and English-language services even when publicly funded alternatives do not share those systemwide costs.
Devon will push to require every school receiving public per-pupil funding to contribute fairly to shared services so taxpayers do not pay twice.
Indiana’s special education funding formula has not received the scrutiny needed to ensure students with disabilities receive the protections and support federal law promises.
Devon will push for an independent audit of the formula, identify funding gaps and workarounds, and demand accountability for how resources reach students.
Political pressure is increasingly shaping curriculum and assessment decisions that should be guided by classroom experience and student outcomes.
Devon will push to put educator expertise and peer-reviewed evidence at the center of curriculum and assessment decisions.
When housing, utilities, childcare, and healthcare all rise while paychecks don’t, families feel the squeeze. Indiana’s affordability crisis was built by policy — and it can be reversed by policy.
Duke Energy raised bills 20% in one year because of choices made in Indianapolis.
Devon will push to reform rate-tracker laws that lock in increases, stop billing families for data-center infrastructure, restore the state efficiency program, and cap costs as a share of income.
Teachers, nurses, and the people who keep this community running can’t afford to live here. In parts of Fishers, a third of rentals are corporate-owned; some Noblesville neighborhoods have seen more than half go the same way.
Devon will push to limit out-of-state investors from converting single-family homes to rentals, protect seniors from tax spikes, and open a practical path to ownership for first-time buyers.
Since 2024, Indiana has frozen enrollment and cut provider payments by up to 35%. More than 300 providers have closed, costing the state an estimated $4 billion a year in economic output.
Devon will push to restore provider funding, expand tax credits for working families, and draw down every available federal matching dollar.
Family health premiums are approaching $27,000 a year while Indiana’s doctors remain among the lowest-paid in the country.
Devon will push to take hospital price caps further, enforce pricing transparency with real penalties, hold insurers accountable for improper denials, and expand telehealth access.
More than 33,000 Hamilton County residents, including 7,000 children, face hunger, and pantry demand has risen 30% in one year.
Devon will push to streamline enrollment across food assistance and Medicaid, connect food access to primary care, and expand SNAP incentives at local farmers markets.
A private nursing home room now costs nearly $10,000 a month, often without warning before a family needs care.
Devon will push to lift the 40-hour cap on paid family caregivers, reform HEA 1127, reduce waitlists for home-based programs, and help seniors claim the federal benefits they’ve earned.
Indiana hasn’t raised its minimum wage since 2009, and it taxes the lowest-income families at nearly twice the effective rate paid by the highest earners.
Devon will push to raise the minimum wage, fix the tax treatment of basic prepared foods, create an Indiana Earned Income Tax Credit, and tie corporate incentives to verified job creation.
Opportunity should mean more than a credential or a job title. It should provide a path to rent, childcare, homeownership, savings, and the freedom to build something of your own.
Indiana requires new diploma and workforce pathways without consistently funding the programs or counselors students need to navigate them.
Devon will push to fund trade and workforce pathways, build pipelines between high schools and trade unions, and keep college within reach without decades of debt.
Unpredictable tariffs and subsidies tilted toward large corporations make it harder for local owners to plan, grow, and remain in their communities.
Devon will push for stable trade policy, support Community Land Trusts that protect local businesses from rising rents, and reform subsidies that favor big corporations.
SEA 1 strips communities of tools to fund local priorities, while broad tax rollbacks can undermine the schools and services families rely on.
Devon will push to restore local authority, protect programs like NobleACT, and target property-tax relief to seniors and working families who need it.
Farmland lost to development does not return, and beginning farmers face growing barriers to securing land and reaching local customers.
Devon will push for land-access legislation, support conservation tools like the Teter Organic Farm model, and invest in farmers markets and local food systems.
Indiana keeps paying for expensive outcomes through emergency rooms, nursing homes, and missed work instead of preventing those costs. Administrative failures are projected to trigger $140 million in food-assistance penalties beginning in 2027, while childcare matching funds, utility savings, and summer food support go unused or are turned down.
Devon’s approach is to fix state-created failures, recover the federal dollars Hoosiers already paid for, and redirect spending from costly outcomes to prevention. Indiana has the resources; what it needs is the follow-through to use them for the people who paid for them.