Senate Bill 199 directs the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to review programs whose graduates earn median wages below the average earnings of a high school graduate in Indiana.
Starting next year, certified public accountant candidates will have an optional pathway to licensure that requires less schooling.
Restrictions apply to common student devices, which schools must either prohibit entirely or require students to keep powered off and inaccessible during the school day.
The $1 building sale could be the last of its kind, because lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt IPS from the state law that requires such sales.
Charter leaders and advocates are concerned about relinquishing power over buildings. IPS supporters, meanwhile, worry lawmakers are treating the district unfairly.
A push from Gov. Mike Braun and Republican lawmakers to tighten oversight of commercial truck drivers advanced in the Indiana Senate on Monday.
The school has grown substantially at its location within Northwest Middle School in Indianapolis Public Schools.
IU Inc. was approved unanimously by the university’s board of trustees during its monthly meeting Friday in Indianapolis.
Indiana and the nation have a chronic shortage of deaf educators, and many programs that train them are being eliminated or merged, compounding the problem.
The measure directs state officials to scrutinize and potentially eliminate certain low-wage college degree programs offered at Indiana’s public institutions.
Part of the funding will help expand the White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management program to Indianapolis.
Indianapolis author John Green and his brother, Hank, operate educational media company Complexly, which has garnered billions of views through web series that explain just about every classroom subject from animal biology to Latin American literature.
The nine-member board would be appointed by the Indianapolis mayor and oversee key aspects of schools within its boundaries, such as a transportation system and an accountability system that could be used to recommend closing inefficient or low-performing schools.
This shift coincides with a broad reassessment of what the best career paths are in today’s labor market, which economists have called one of the most vexing in generations—especially for entry-level applicants.
Charters within IPS borders could choose not to give control of their school buildings over to the proposed Indianapolis Public Education Corp. under a bill that advanced Thursday.
The legislation would require the state’s public colleges and universities to consider scores from the CLT as an alternative to SAT or ACT results.
Indiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would give a new governing body power over buildings, buses and taxes for Indianapolis schools, after adding key dates for when these changes would happen.
The enrollment dips come as schools across the country experience a continual post-COVID population drop that could stem from a number of factors, including declining birth rates, stricter immigration policy, and other school options.
Under current state law, students are prohibited from using phones during instructional time, but they can use them during lunch and passing periods.
“Applications at IU Bloomington have gone up 60% since I started in 2021,” IU President Pam Whitten said. And the “biggest increase was before we were good at football.”
