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Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction is suggesting one more high school graduation requirement, one that means kids won’t be showing up in the classroom. Superintendent Tony Bennett is expected to announce in his annual State of Education speech tonight a proposal that requires Indiana high schoolers to take at least one online course before graduating. [...]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils. It’s a scenario public school advocates have long feared: [...]
Today, Indiana’s Board of Education is expected to rubber-stamp a contentious plan for the state to take over three high schools and one middle school in Indianapolis, paving the way for the Hoosier state’s first experience running local classrooms. If the plan is approved, private managers would be put in charge of Manual, Arlington and [...]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils. It’s a scenario public school advocates have long feared: [...]
Today, Indiana’s Board of Education is expected to rubber-stamp a contentious plan for the state to take over three high schools and one middle school in Indianapolis, paving the way for the Hoosier state’s first experience running local classrooms. If the plan is approved, private managers would be put in charge of Manual, Arlington and [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge Monday declined to halt Indiana’s broad new school voucher program, saying the law was “religion-neutral” and likely to be upheld. The measure passed this year by the Republican-dominated General Assembly and signed into law by GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels is the nation’s broadest private school voucher program. A group of teachers [...]
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A central Indiana judge sentenced a teenager convicted of shooting a former middle school classmate to 35 years in prison Friday. Judge G. Thomas Gray noted 16-year-old Michael Phelps had struggled with a troubled family life and his mother’s drinking but said Phelps was the sole person responsible for the March 25 [...]