The grants announced Monday include $5.9 million for Hammond High School, $5.8 million for Glenwood Middle School, $2.2 million
for Indianapolis Metropolitan High School and $1.6 million for the Challenge Foundation Academy.
An Arkansas-based charity, formed by Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton, will run a competition to award grants to five community
organizations that want to start charter schools.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is calling for a new law that would force public school districts to transfer unused buildings
to charter school startups looking for space.
Few Hoosiers have any concept of the scope of the information tsunami washing over state education policy, but they’re
beginning to find out.
About 75 percent of Indiana students passed this year's statewide English and math exams—a significant improvement
over the 2009 test results.
Newsweek's list of top high schools, released Monday, ranks more than 1,600 schools, including 28 in Indiana.
Simon Youth Foundation, a local not-for-profit, helps at-risk high school students across the country by partnering with local
school systems.
The 800-member group hopes to attract more men to its ranks.
The state is building a massive data system with a tough-love intent of rewarding good educators and schools and hammering
poor performers.
The head of a national teachers union said Indiana’s Department of Education is among the three most hostile to teachers in
the country.
About two dozen states are going back to Washington for another shot at billions in education grants under the “Race to the
Top” program, but at least nine others including Indiana are opting out of trying a second time.
Voters in Washington Township, Pike Township, Speedway, Carmel Clay and Noblesville approved
higher tax rates to help prevent teacher cuts or support building projects.
Administrators are asking for millions of dollars of additional money to prevent teacher cuts and to support school building
projects.
Three Hoosier universities—Notre Dame, Marian and Indiana—are moving to launch programs that seek to apply MBA-style training to the unique demands of schools.
Launched in Houston three years ago, Lemonade Day aims to educate children from pre-kindergarten through high school how to
start, own and operate their own small businesses.
State will bow out of the $4.35 billion federal competition after a highly public feud between public schools chief Tony Bennett
and the state’s teachers unions.
Indiana is among the nation’s five most underfunded teacher pension programs, but low ranking is misleading.
Many districts want to keep the full-day programs and say they’re considering increasing fees to do so.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett invites heads of teachers unions to meeting to publicly share reform ideas instead of “bureaucratic rhetoric and no
specifics.”
Concerns about separation of church and state have prompted a national watchdog group to express reservations.
