Education

A sign for the Monroe County Community School Corporation Administration Offices is seen Sept. 2, 2021, during the afternoon dismissal at Bloomington High School South. MCCSC school board candidates explained their campaign platforms at a forum Monday.

MCCSC school board candidates discuss safety, book banning and equity during forum Monday

Sep 27, 2022 4:56 pm

The Indiana Coalition for Public Education invited candidates from both contested races to speak.

Decorations are displayed on a classroom door in honor of Banned Book Week Sept. 19 at the IU School of Education building. A walk-through tour of the doors is the second of a two-part series celebrating reading freedom and giving education students the opportunity to strengthen their visual literacy skills.

IU School of Education to host tour of decorated doors honoring Banned Book Week

Sep 21, 2022 10:59 am

The event centers around the theme “Books Unite Us! Censorship Divides Us!”

Assistant Superintendent Dr. Andrea Mobley speaks during the Monroe County Community School District Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 28, 2021, in the MCCSC Co-Lab building. Monroe County residents will vote on a referendum Nov. 8 that would increase property tax for homeowners and businesses for the next eight years to fund MCCSC.

A Monroe County voter’s guide to the 2022 MCCSC referendum

Sep 8, 2022 3:08 pm

Voters approved MCCSC referenda in 2010 and 2016, but now they are set to expire.

MCCSC fills all teaching positions, but Indiana teachers face nationally low pay, public criticism

Sep 6, 2022 9:00 am

Monroe County Community School Corporation currently has all teacher positions filled.

A sign for the Monroe County Community School Corporation Administration Office is seen Sept. 2, 2021, during the afternoon dismissal at Bloomington High School South. Driver shortages left students waiting for a bus long after it was supposed to pick them up, sometimes not even coming at all.

MCCSC combats transportation issues, bus driver shortage with cash incentives

Aug 25, 2022 4:17 pm

The district will offer a $1,000 new driver sign-on bonus to prevent further delays.

Referendum to increase teacher salary on the ballot this November

Jul 3, 2022 1:36 pm

The referendum would levy an 18.5 cent tax per $100 in property value.

Chemistry professor David Clemmer is pictured. Clemmer will receive the Wylie Innovation Catalyst Medal along with chemistry professor Martin Jarrold and retired venture capitalist Jane Martin on Monday.

IU chemistry professors and alumna to receive innovation, commercialization award

Apr 3, 2022 9:00 am

IU President Pamela Whitten will present the award in a ceremony Monday.

OPINION: Don’t get too caught up in your major

Mar 29, 2022 3:39 pm

It's OK if you do not know what you want to do.

Now a union representative for the biology department, doctoral candidate Pat Wall poses on Feb. 20, 2022, outside of Jordan Hall. Wall has been organizing with the Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition-United Electrical Workers Union since the summer, when he found out about the organization's plans to push for union recognition.

IU graduate workers continue fighting for unionization despite tough legal environment

Feb 23, 2022 2:25 pm

Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition organizers plan to continue pressuring IU to recognize their union.

OPINION: Segregation in MCCSC schools is at 'Brown vs. Board of Education-era levels'

Feb 20, 2022 5:24 pm

Why redrawing school districts is the quickest path to a more equitable school system.

Students board busse Sept. 13, 2021, at Bloomington High School South. Monroe County Community School Corporation schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday.

Monroe County Community School Corporation will move school online during winter storm

Feb 1, 2022 9:20 pm

MCCSC schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday.

Franklin Hall is seen Jan. 25, 2022, on East Kirkwood Avenue. A search committee for the Media School met before summer 2021 to begin the process of searching for a new dean.

Media School dean search committee to narrow down candidates to finalists this month

Feb 1, 2022 7:20 pm

The search committee plans to bring four or five finalists to campus mid-February.

The Indiana University Regional Academic Health Center is pictured from the air at IU Bloomington on Oct. 27, 2021. IU’s clinical psychology program plans to involve its students within several departments of the IU Regional Academic Health Center which opened to patients in Bloomington this December.

IU clinical psychology program plans to involve students in Regional Academic Health Center

Dec 16, 2021 2:59 pm

Clinical training director said program will begin when professor is appointed to lead students.

A student studies Dec. 6, 2021, in the Indiana Memorial Union. Final exams for the fall semester are scheduled to begin Monday.

IU students, faculty share how to overcome finals week

Dec 7, 2021 5:25 pm

Students said it’s important to find the balance between studying and relaxing.

Then-U.S. Representative Todd Rokita speaks with the press after hearing Vice President Mike Pence speak Sept. 22, 2017, at the Wylam Center of Flagship East in Anderson, Indiana. Under Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita exists a Parents’ Bill of Rights, which provides guidelines on how parents across the state can exercise their right to monitor decisions regarding their child’s education.

IU faculty responds to Parents’ Bill of Rights’ medical, education decisions

Dec 7, 2021 11:17 am

IU faculty debate the new section on vaccination in the Parents’ Bill of Rights.

Three vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are pictured in 2021. The vaccine recently became available for children ages 5 to 11.

IU experts say giving COVID-19 vaccine to children is safe, effective

Dec 2, 2021 9:10 am

Rising COVID-19 positivity rates in K-12 schools are creating skepticism about vaccinating children.

Indiana youth organizations educate communities, provide resources for runaway youths

Nov 30, 2021 6:37 pm

November is the National Runaway Prevention Month.

After vote to disarm school officers, MCCSC receives backlash following gun incidents

Nov 28, 2021 5:09 pm

Monroe County residents criticized the decision to remove firearms from school resource officers.

Recycling and trash bins sit Nov. 16, 2021, in Dunn Meadow behind Franklin Hall. Recycling and trash bins are located across the IU-Bloomington campus.

IU students discuss desire for more recycling education

Nov 17, 2021 2:48 pm

Nov. 15 was annual National Recycling Day.

IU sophomore Tracy Mai and junior Diego Manansala plant a yellowwood sapling Nov. 7, 2021, behind the O'Neill School. Volunteers at Sustain IU's "A Resilient Woodland Campus" event planted 38 native trees in the hopes of improving the health of campus woodlots.

Volunteers plant native trees to improve IU campus biodiversity, climate resiliency

Nov 7, 2021 4:24 pm

Recent initiatives are taking a new look at campus woodlots as key to future ecosystem health at IU.