Lawmakers urge more background checks for Indiana teachers
A panel of Indiana lawmakers has endorsed recommendations to strengthen the state's background checks system for educators and streamline the process for revoking a teacher's license.
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ITT Educational Services files for bankruptcy after shutdown
The Carmel-based, for-profit educator began liquidation proceedings Friday after closing 136 technical schools, leaving over 35,000 students stranded in one of the largest college shutdowns in U.S. history.
Study: Indiana ranks low for teacher recruitment, retention
The report from the not-for-profit Learning Policy Institute says Indiana teachers earn starting salaries lower than the national average but face among the largest class sizes.
Telehealth clinic allows students to see physician in school
Elwood Community School Corp. is one of the first schools in Indiana to have a telehealth clinic. It teamed with Managed Health Services, Indiana Rural Health Association, Aspire Indiana and St. Vincent Mercy Hospital.
ITT Educational hires liquidator to sell off ‘all’ assets
ITT Educational Services Inc., the 70-year-old for-profit college operator that shut down its 136 technical schools last week, has hired advisers to liquidate its assets, according to one of the firms brought in to handle the sales.
Competition for school kids heats up across Indy
Public schools—including traditional, district-run schools and charters—are employing ever-more sophisticated advertising and marketing campaigns in an effort to meet enrollment targets by the time the official state count day rolls around.
Indy employers to blitz 8th-graders with career choices at JobSpark
At the new event, more than 7,000 Marion County eighth-graders will get hands-on experience in eight job sectors, aided by some 3,000 volunteers from more than 100 companies.
ITT Educational calling it quits after lender seizes bank accounts
The Carmel-based for-profit educator, which last week shut down all 136 of its ITT Technical Institute campuses in 38 states, said it will “cease all operations” on Friday.
Former ITT Tech students launch federal debt strike
More than 100 former students of now-closed ITT Technical Institutes announced Wednesday they'll no longer make payments on their federal student loans, part of a revolt against what they call the Obama administration's negligence in policing for-profit colleges.
Republican delegation wants GI Bill benefits returned to ITT Tech students
Six of Indiana’s U.S. representatives filed legislation Tuesday to help veterans regain their GI Bill education benefits after the closure of ITT Technical Institute.
Purdue University reports main campus enrollment record
Purdue's announcement comes after Indiana University reported a record mark of some 43,200 students enrolled at its Bloomington campus for the fall semester.
VA unable to reinstate GI Bill benefits for ITT students
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence wants the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reinstate GI Benefits for students who enrolled in ITT Technical Institute, but that may not be legally possible.
Both superintendent candidates agree: A-F grades for schools too harsh
When voters go to the polls this fall to decide who should run the state’s top education office, both candidates will be people who believe that one grade isn’t enough to reflect the work of an entire school or district.
ITT is gone, but challenges facing for-profit schools live on
The question that dragged down ITT Educational Services—whether its expensive diplomas were leaving students awash in debt while failing to properly prepare them for gainful employment—will continue to hang over other players in the for-profit education industry.
What’s next for ITT students and their half-billion dollars in debt?
The closure of ITT’s 136 campuses threatens to throw some 29,000 indebted students off their educational tracks, and to saddle taxpayers with nearly a half-billion dollars in losses.
In danger of closure, charter school transfers students to sister school
Indiana State Board of Education members were stunned to learn Wednesday that a failing charter school transferred some of its neediest students to a newly created sister school just before the board was expected to decide its fate.
ITT Educational employees file lawsuit over sudden terminations
Two employees who were terminated Tuesday as part of mass layoff by ITT Educational Services have filed a lawsuit claiming the Carmel-based firm violated federal law by failing to provide 60-days notice. The suit seeks class-action status for as many as 8,000 employees.
Failing online charter school’s fate on the line
The Indiana State Board of Education on Wednesday must once again decide what to do about one of the state’s lowest-scoring online charter schools.
ITT Tech won’t say whether it will file for bankruptcy protection
The company will begin the process of liquidating, which will include selling off its Carmel headquarters and other real estate.
ITT Tech to cease operations, cut nearly 8,000 employees
Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc. announced Tuesday morning that it will permanently “discontinue academic operations” at all ITT Technical Institutes campuses. The company blamed the closure on “inappropriate and unconstitutional” federal sanctions.