Purdue University announced it will reduce the amount of lobbying money it spends in Washington D.C. in attempt to allow the two-year tuition freeze the school announced at the beginning of March.
Parents, educators and legislators from throughout the state gathered to rally against House Bill 1003, which would expand the state’s school voucher system.
As Disability Awareness Month rolls around, schools are focusing on getting students the resources they need.
After Senate Bill 416 was withdrawn this week, administrators and policymakers are struggling to decide how to evaluate schools.
Educators from around the country met last week in San Diego to focus on treatment of LGBT youth in schools
Students in Sarah Murray’s kindergarten class at Childs Elementary School exchanged books as a part of International Book Giving Day Thursday.
Members of the Monroe County Community School Corporation and local schools met Monday to discuss keeping children, and staff, safe in emergency situations.
The local school board voted Tuesday to pass new academic calendars for the 2013-16 school years, despite parents in attendance voicing opposition to the new design.
The Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools is auctioning a free pet adoption at Bloomington Animal Shelter, a five-day vacation in Cancun and 16 "priceless" pieces of Nick's memorabilia.
Teachers and parents, along with Indiana State Teachers Association Vice President Teresa Meredith, filed suit in July 2011 and claimed the voucher program is unconstitutional because it pays state funds to private and religious schools.
The world of language is violent and chaotic, a linguistics expert said Monday during a lecture.
G.I. Jobs chooses schools that offer the best and most adaptable services. Veteran students may also vote for schools they believe are military friendly, according to a press release.
Gov.-elect Mike Pence said Indiana education reform made in the past four years will be affirmed and built upon when he spoke Wednesday alongside Gov. Mitch Daniels at his office.
Cassandra Guarino, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy, said value-added models are data-driven and objective methods of teacher evaluations that improve the status quo. However, she said the models are biased, error-laden and might be based on faulty tests.
IPS Superintendent Eugene White and David Harris, founder and CEO of the Mind Trust, offered analyses of the specific problems affecting IPS, and which reforms would solve those problems.
The education department hasn’t released the grades because incumbent Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett knows the results won’t be positive, said Democrat Glenda Ritz, Bennett’s opponent.
MCUW and the Salvation Army worked together at the Literacy Party on Wednesday to teach parents with children 5 years old and younger ways they can ensure their children will be ready for kindergarten.
Indiana universities will receive $36,000 from the “Core to College” grant, funds intended to establish relationships between higher and K-12 education.
Indiana Sen. Brent Waltz, R-Greenwood, and the Indiana State Teachers Association recently announced a proposal that would establish financial literacy curricula throughout the state.
In an effort to increase college completion and student success, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education challenges local leaders from all 92 Indiana counties to form a College Success Coalition.
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