A generally overlooked part of the 2011 education reform package makes it clear donors to private schools can target their gifts to specific schools, a move that seems to have unleashed the tax credit’s full potential by helping private schools line up more donations.
Illinois-based Tricoci University of Beauty Culture has acquired Honors Beauty College in Fishers and plans to expand into the Indianapolis area with as many as seven campus locations over the next four years.
Technology Partnership aims to boost sector, recruit employers and talent.
MyJibe co-founder Mike Langellier is among a new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the Indianapolis area that benefits from a host of support their predecessors never enjoyed.
Schools taking part in the federal funding must implement one of four intervention models to get their programs back on track and to boost students’ academic performance.
IPS superintendent Eugene White had been among the finalists for the top jobs at schools systems in Mobile, Ala., and in Greenville, S.C. But both districts chose this week to appoint internal candidates to lead their school systems.
Indiana High School Athletic Association Commissioner Bobby Cox and state Sen. Mike Delph have announced an 11-stop statewide tour to discuss Indiana's class basketball system.
Changes made five years ago in state property-tax laws have strangled the school district in wealthy Zionsville, while schools in neighboring blue-collar Lebanon are in solid financial shape.
The idea is to send middle and high school students the message that there are plenty of jobs in engineering.
State Superintendent Tony Bennett said the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, test in the 2014-2015 school year will be more difficult than the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus exam.
The resolution looks to increase on-time graduation rates at both two- and four-year campuses and double the number of college graduates produced in the state by 2025. The plan also aims to have 60 percent of Indiana adults with college degrees by 2025.
Factories laid off droves of workers during the recession but now struggle to find tech-savvy employees during the recovery.
Westfield-based safety company IMMI said it plans to hire more than 65 full-time workers and 50 temporary employees to keep up with demand for lap and shoulder belts for school buses.
The facility at IUPUI will include nearly 34,000 square feet of research and classroom space and is the first phase of a planned two-stage project to improve the university’s research facilities.
A major provider of services to children with developmental disabilities and emotional challenges plans to cease operations in late May, resulting in the loss of 134 jobs. It hopes to reopen later this year as a center for adults, with as many as 200 employees.
The Rev. Boniface Hardin, a Roman Catholic priest who co-founded Martin University to serve adult learners in Indianapolis, has died. He was 78.
A person familiar with the basketball coaching search at the University of Illinois says the Illini are interested in talking to Ohio University's John Groce after being turned down by Brad Stevens of Butler University.
It has been seven months since a committee tasked with finding the next Purdue University president began its hunt.
Indiana school superintendents will have to disclose more about their pay under a new state law.
An idea being kicked around the halls of IUPUI would split off the schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, optometry, health sciences and social work into a separate administrative unit, based in Indianapolis.
