School finance experts estimate 40 to 50 districts could ask voters to approve local property tax measures, driven by a series of changes to state law.
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Under current state law, students are prohibited from using phones during instructional time, but they can use them during lunch and passing periods.
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The grants will support a wide range of initiatives like new student programming, teacher training, and updated STEM and performing arts spaces.
A second draft of an accountability system for Indiana schools was presented to the State Board of Education by Indiana Department of Education officials on Wednesday.
Free speech advocates quickly raised concerns that the governor’s threat risks trampling constitutional protections and chilling lawful speech.
The percentage of Black and Hispanic students in IPS-run schools reaching proficiency in both math and English increased from last year, but have not yet reached pre-pandemic levels.
Amid state budget troubles, alternative schools lost more than $4 million in funding.
The school board voted unanimously Thursday night to divide the property into three separate parcels.
Braun tweeted that he supports “President Trump’s bold action to return education to where it belongs and to put parents in the driver’s seat of their children’s education.”
With the committee deadline over, lawmakers are now working with fewer bills in the 2025 session.
More than 130 students have left Broad Ripple Middle School since its debut at the start of the school year. Some departing families cited poor communication and a chaotic environment. Some who stayed see significant improvements.
The grant brings Salesforce’s total giving to Indianapolis Public Schools district to $5.5 million over the past seven years.
For the first time, Pike Township is asking voters to help fund operations. The ballot measure would fund three key areas: continuing programs and staffing added since the pandemic, attracting and retaining teachers, and school safety and security.
The HSE school board also approved a resolution appointing Assistant Superintendent Matt Kegley as interim superintendent.
The expansion backed by Indiana House Republicans could cost more than $500 million over the next two years—nearly one-third of the total proposed school funding increase—by raising the income limit to qualify for state money toward private school tuition.
Former Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White will temporarily lead the district’s only high school, which was also the subject of the lawsuit filed against the district last May.
Current state law permits schools to include a student’s immunization information with their high school transcript, but some say that violates students’ privacy rights.
The proposed operating referendum would provide $50 million annually over an eight-year period to expand student programs and increase teacher pay through the program.
The move comes as Indianapolis Public Schools plan to introduce two ballot measures in May to increase taxes to support more than $800 million in capital and operating expenses. The district has said the additional money is critical to its reorganization plan.
The vote puts Indiana on track to join several other states that have recently adopted financial literacy graduation requirements.
Critics argued the original proposal opened up tuition payments to private schools for even the wealthiest families.
Parents and their children argued in a public comment session on Monday that it would be better for the district to improve driver-recruitment efforts rather than force hundreds of students to attend a new school next year.
