June 16, 2013
Associated PressA legislative panel studying why 78,000 test-takers were frozen out of the high-stakes exam test last month plans to meet
Friday to hear from CTB/McGraw-Hill President Ellen Haley on what went wrong.
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June 15, 2013
J.K. WallThe for-profit educator won approval last month to start a charter school for 11th- and 12th-graders inside one of its ITT
Technical Institutes in Indianapolis.
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June 11, 2013
Associated PressThe head of the Indiana Department of Transportation is looking to join former Gov. Mitch Daniels at Purdue University.
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June 10, 2013
Associated PressAn independent review of Indiana's ISTEP test results is under way one month after computer troubles disrupted test-taking
for thousands of students this spring.
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June 6, 2013
Associated PressThe 20,000-student school says the increase approved Thursday is the lowest at Ball State in 37 years.
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June 6, 2013
Bloomberg NewsThe lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett failed to show a violation of federal antitrust law, U.S. District Judge
Yvette Kane said in her decision throwing out the case.
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June 6, 2013
J.K. WallBut further expansion is on hold because of a state freeze on new adult-focused charter schools. Lawmakers are concerned the
schools are siphoning funds from K-12 education.
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June 5, 2013
Associated PressA program aimed at teaching and training prison inmates skills needed to get jobs when they are released has led to more than
600 people being employed in its first year.
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June 4, 2013
IBJ StaffRuss Simnick, president of the Indiana Public Charter Schools Association since 2008, has taken a job with the Washington,
D.C.-based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the IPCSA announced Tuesday.
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June 4, 2013
Associated PressMarian University in Indianapolis has announced it has reached its self-imposed limit of 162 students for the incoming class
of its new college of osteopathic medicine. It will be the first medical school to open in Indiana in more than 100 years.
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June 3, 2013
Associated PressThe second year of a 25-percent tuition discount still hasn't boosted summer semester enrollment at Indiana University's
main campus.
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June 2, 2013
Associated PressMounting budget woes and the need to deal with a $68 million deficit could force Ivy Tech Community College to close up to
a quarter of its school sites around Indiana, school officials said.
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June 1, 2013
Anthony SchoettleCarlos Knox runs The Knox Indy Pro Am Summer League, one of only a few nationwide where basketball fans can find top college
and professional hoops stars facing off against one another on the hardwood.
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June 1, 2013
Anthony SchoettleThe NCAA is overhauling its event bidding format, and in June will bid out 500 championship events to be played over the next
four years.
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May 31, 2013
Associated PressThe proposed increase will make Ball State's in-state tuition nearly $9,200 for 2013-14 and about $9,300 the following
year.
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May 30, 2013
Associated PressThe Indiana Department of Education announced Wednesday that $5 million is owed the state's schools because of savings
achieved through school vouchers.
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May 30, 2013
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsThe student lender wants to separate its education loan management and consumer bank businesses into two publicly traded entities.
The firm is a major employer in Indiana, with more than 2,600 employees at offices in Indianapolis, Fishers and Muncie.
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May 30, 2013
J.K. WallThe $360 million initiative will be formally launched on Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence, executives of five major life sciences
companies and officials of the state’s research universities.
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May 29, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's Department of Education is seeking an outside review of the ISTEP test results following a series of computer
glitches that will likely delay test results until July.
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May 25, 2013
J.K. WallIn the same year the Legislature passed a set of sweeping reforms to improve Indiana’s public schools, Indiana’s
eighth-graders were scoring No. 7 in the world on an international math test.
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May 25, 2013
J.K. WallFriends' competition for bragging rights lands both on Forbes' 30 Under 30 lists.
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May 22, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's largest school district says it won't accept results of this year's standardized testing until an independent
third party validates the scores.
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May 22, 2013
Mason KingIndianapolis-based education reform group The Mind Trust will use the grant to help support teacher recruitment and training
programs such as Teach for America.
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May 21, 2013
IBJ StaffMichael Harris, who resigned from IU-Kokomo on Sept. 19, claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign by school administrators.
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May 21, 2013
Associated PressThe Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a formal objection with university officials over an elective honors class
called "Boundaries of Science," which the foundation maintains teaches religion rather than science.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.