Indiana secures $6.25M to advance apprenticeships
Indiana’s demand for apprenticeship is rising after education officials approved a massive high school diploma redesign last year.
Indiana’s demand for apprenticeship is rising after education officials approved a massive high school diploma redesign last year.
Sen. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, has been one of the Legislature’s biggest proponents of SMRs, streamlining the regulatory process for those reactors and trying to persuade utilities and manufacturers to embrace their development.
The move also comes on the heels of a new law adopted by the General Assembly earlier this year to increase transparency requirements involving state contracting.
The K-8 Cold Spring School, which is known for its competitive robotics team and STEM programs, had sought to amend its Innovation Network agreement with Indianapolis Public Schools.
Nearly 3,000 participants were surveyed for a new five-year strategic plan published by the Indy Arts Council.
Indiana’s wealthiest families will get funding for their children’s private-school tuition while our less-fortunate families struggle to afford preschool.
Municipal government leaders across Indiana are going pale in the face while they review budget forecasts for the next few years as a sweeping property tax relief law takes effect.
Indiana’s new Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is expected to focus on Main Street businesses—small businesses that are not venture-backed, not easily scaled and found in many towns and cities across the state.
Education and labor experts note that making high school apprenticeships commonplace won’t be simple.
At least seven public school districts in the Indianapolis area are raising the cost of preschool for the coming year, as the state makes cuts to its state preschool voucher program, On My Way Pre-K.
As of July 1, 68 people in Baltimore had died by homicide this year, the fewest during the first six months of the year in more than five decades.
The acquisitions come as the family redevelops the former CSX warehouse property on the eastern side of the same block.
School systems are unable to draw down funding, jeopardizing summer programs, hiring and early-year planning for the 2025–26 school year. Indiana stands to lose out on about $100 million.
Indiana Public Broadcasting News is in peril after the Indiana Legislature removed millions of dollars earmarked to support public stations.
The first students in the Career Apprenticeship Pathway, or INCAP, will start in fall 2026 and split time between school and the workplace.
Businesses say the rising licensing costs have become overwhelming, and some question whether it’s even worth playing music at all.
Some of the biggest funding reductions in the bill—like Medicaid reform—will be phased in, meaning it won’t immediately hit Indiana’s coffers.
Lawmakers called the program a threat to national security and a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.
About three-quarters of U.S. adults see child care costs as a “major problem,” but only about half say helping working families pay for child care should be a “high priority” for the federal government, according to the poll.
Amid state budget troubles, alternative schools lost more than $4 million in funding.