Personnel costs make up about 90 percent of Indianapolis Public Schools’ general fund budget of $263.7 million, which prompted an Indy Chamber committee that recently analyzed the system’s finances to call for cuts in that area.
Pence is heading to the Shepherd Community Center to highlight his request that the state provide vouchers for children from low-income families to attend preschool.
A measure designed to restore Indiana Wesleyan University's workforce training contract with the state unexpectedly raised issues about religious discrimination Monday in the General Assembly.
The Indiana Senate shot down two proposed amendments to the pre-K education bill Monday, before finally accepting an amendment to add another member to the study commission.
Indianapolis Public Schools should immediately consider selling five of its buildings and work with IndyGo to transport students, according to a study by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.
The bulk of the money, to be spent over five years, will go to a 134,000-square-foot health sciences center, which will provide training space for the university’s nursing, physical therapy and other health care students.
Sen. Luke Kenley scuttled a pilot program of state-funded preschool vouchers for low-income families on Feb. 19, instead sending it to a summer committee to investigate 10 questions he said will help make sure Indiana launches a worthwhile program.
The full House now will consider the controversial proposal to opt out of federal standards and allow Indiana to make its own benchmarks for preparing students for college and careers after high school.
The Senate Education Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to change the measure from a limited pilot program to an issue that will be studied over the summer.
The chairman of the Senate education committee said some senators are concerned about the bill–which would create a five-county pilot preschool program–due to its cost and connection to the state’s private school voucher system.
Indiana University officials expect to know by noon whether regularly scheduled games still will be held in the arena. A large piece of metal fell from the ceiling into the stands on Tuesday, but officials believe it was an isolated incident.
The funds will boost an initiative by Project Lead the Way Inc. to expand science- and math-related curriculums in U.S. urban school districts.
Indiana University in Bloomington is at the top of overall completion rates at about 83 percent. Ivy Tech Community College is at the bottom with about 28 percent.
The money will finance scholarships and efforts to make the school more affordable for students. The contribution includes matching elements that could ultimately provide more than $9 million for students.
Chief Financial Officer MaryFrances McCourt didn't say how parking rates would be adjusted to create that projected boost and where the extra money would be directed.
Pyle’s bronze likeness outside of Franklin Hall will be just the third statue on IU’s Bloomington campus.
Fritz French and Richard DiMarchi, the former leaders of Marcadia Biotech, have teamed up to launch the diabetes drug development firm Calibrium LLC.
Under the House Republican plan, families earning less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level in five selected counties would get state aid to send their children to public, private or religious preschools that meet certain education standards.
Elected officials throughout Hamilton County are putting aside their jurisdictional differences to ask state lawmakers for help with school-funding issues they say are jeopardizing the county’s public education—and possibly its economic development efforts.
A new group of young people who support banning gay marriage in Indiana announced a campaign Tuesday to pressure lawmakers to restore language to the proposed constitutional amendment that would enable it to get to voters in November.
