Indianapolis-based not-for-profit Music for All, which puts on the annual Bands of America competition, announced Thursday that it plans to keep its headquarters and events in Indianapolis through 2023.
Three new reform-minded IPS board members could help usher in sweeping changes to the school district. At the state level, however, school librarian Glenda Ritz denied Tony Bennett a second term as voters spurned his sweeping education overhaul.
In the shocker of Tuesday night’s election results, teachers unhappy with Republican Tony Bennett’s sweeping education reforms propelled dark-horse Democrat Glenda Ritz into the role of superintendent of public instruction.
The Indianapolis Public Schools board will have a new look in the new year.
Caitlin Hannon, who is in a three-way contest for the Indianapolis Public Schools District 1, has raised $62,437 this year, including $34,000 from out-of-state education reformers.
Ball State University is weighing plans for a sorority village that would house the growing number of women who want to be part of the school's Greek community.
Ivy Tech Community College says its corporate college branch has selected Duane Embree to be its national director of military defense initiatives.
The university made the move after its Board of Trustees agreed to study the possibility of a 30- or 50-year lease. Some trustees and faculty representatives have questioned whether it would be a good move.
About 60 percent of Indiana public schools are getting A or B letter grades for student progress, while about 7 percent received failing grades that could position them for state takeover if they don't improve.
A slight majority of more than 7,000 residents in the Indianapolis Public Schools district are dissatisfied with the school system, according to surveys conducted in late summer by a coalition of community groups, including IPS itself.
The NCAA passed a package of sweeping changes Tuesday intended to crack down hard on rule-breaking schools and coaches.
The campaign to lead Indiana's education department is being watched as a referendum on school policies pushed by conservatives across the country.
Public schools around Indiana will learn their final grades next week under a ranking system using new rules that critics say are too complex for schools and parents to understand.
ITT Educational Services Inc. will not close any of its campuses in response to plummeting student enrollment, but it likely will spend more of its own money to give scholarships to students, company officials said Thursday.
The National Sports Journalism Center was launched in Indianapolis in 2009 by former Indianapolis Star editor Tim Franklin. It offers the nation's first master's degree in sports journalism.
The University of Phoenix will maintain its campus in Indianapolis, a company spokesman confirmed, even as the operator of for-profit colleges closes more than half its campuses nationwide.
A new report says the average student loan debt for graduates of Indiana’s public, four-year universities last year rose to $27,500, or $900 higher than the national average.
A property housing a closed arena and a new facility on the University of Southern Indiana campus are being considered as options as the Indiana University School of Medicine expands its Evansville program from two years of study to four.
Indiana college endowments have surged back since the recession, but three-quarters closed the 2011 fiscal year below where they were when the market crashed.
Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School, which currently has two locations, will use a $1.6 million grant from the Charter School Growth Fund to open five more schools over the next three years.
