Ivy Tech wins $784,000 to re-enroll former students
The money is part of an effort by Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation to boost the number of Americans with college-level degrees.
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Court delays hearing on Indiana school funding lawsuit
Hamilton Southeastern Schools, Franklin Township Schools and Middlebury Community Schools sued the state in February, claiming the school funding formula unfairly penalizes growing districts.
Purdue University staff could get early-retirement offer
A university committee said an early-retirement offer could reduce salary and benefit costs, and eliminate the need for layoffs.
ITT, other for-profit education firms face more oversight
Shares in ITT Educational Services Inc., based in Carmel, declined 13 percent Monday morning, to $56.02 each, after being downgraded
Daniels: Schools likely will avoid more budget cuts
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says the state's current assessment is that education funding will not have to be reduced further
after $300 million in cuts this year.
IU sees big jump in private funding
Indiana University announced Monday that it has seen a 38 percent increase in private-sector grants and contributions from
a year ago, when such revenue declined during the recession.
Proposal: Link federal aid to performance of ITT, peers
The Obama administration released a proposal that would tighten for-profit colleges’ access to federal student aid,
threatening an industry that received $26.5 billion in U.S. funds last year. Carmel-based ITT Educational Services
is among those potentially affected.
Report: Winning referendums takes campaign savvy
A new report says school superintendents who want voters to approve requests for additional district funding need to become
campaign savvy.
Senator to probe spending at for-profit colleges
ITT Educational Services Inc., Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp. and other for-profit educators
are under increasing federal scrutiny over their recruitment practices and the level of student loan defaults.
Indiana teachers unions hope Congress helps states
The leader of Indiana’s largest teachers union says if Congress approves up to $300 million for Indiana schools, it could
save as many as 7,200 public school employee jobs, including those of Indiana teachers, teaching assistants and bus drivers.
Obama plans tougher rules on for-profit colleges
The administration is gearing up to produce tougher regulations that may reduce the amount of federal financial aid flowing
to for-profit colleges such as locally-based ITT Educational.
Several school districts seek passage of referendums
Administrators are asking for millions of dollars of additional money to prevent teacher cuts and to support school building
projects.
Sallie Mae’s job cuts spare Indiana, at least for now
Sallie Mae says a new law that cuts banks out of the federal student-loan business is costing 2,500 workers their jobs in
Florida and Texas, but the cuts won’t hit Indiana in 2010.
ITT Educational altered test scores, ex-employee’s suit says
Former director says he saw employees give passing scores to students who had failed entrance exams, raise their grades and
alter their attendance records so they would continue to receive U.S. financial aid.
Franklin College launches $85 million building campaign
Small liberal arts school in Johnson County plans to modernize and expand athletic facilities, classrooms and residence space.
Approval of college-aid overhaul to shake Sallie Mae
The legislation, piggybacked to the health care bill that passed Congress Sunday night, could also mean major job
losses for Sallie Mae, which employs about 2,400 people in Indiana, including 1,700 in Fishers.
Indiana out in first phase of ‘Race to the Top’ grants
Indiana has missed out in the first round of the U.S. Department of Education’s “Race to the Top” competition, which will
deliver $4.35 billion in school-reform grants.
Schools decry funding disparity in lawsuit
Hamilton Southeastern will see its per-pupil spending of $5,000 drop about $100 in 2010 despite a projected 900-student increase,
the lawsuit says. Indianapolis Public Schools, which has lost more than 1,000 students a year for the last five years, will
receive $7,500 per student in 2010.
IU, Purdue try to preserve research despite budget cuts
The president of each school will update budget-cutting progress in state-of-the-university speeches Tuesday.
Growing Indiana schools districts suing over funding
Hamilton Southeastern, Franklin Township and Middlebury Community Schools of Elkhart County say the school-funding formula
unfairly penalizes districts with growing enrollments.