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Indianapolis Public Schools are using new ways to reduce absenteeism. And they’re working.
Indiana
2 days ago

2017 legislative session

Indiana
3 days ago

What Indiana education bills should you be watching? Testing, teacher pay and school choice.

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Indiana
4 days ago

The biggest donation in the IPS school board race came from an unexpected source

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Indiana
4 days ago

IPS outlines a plan: a restart for School 42 and a reprieve for two other schools

money money money

Indiana
6 days ago

Schools would have more control over their money under GOP plan, but it’s unclear whether students would benefit

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Indianapolis schools divided

schools divided

Indiana
4 months ago

Miss our discussion on school segregation? Watch it here.

Last week a panel of educators, policymakers and experts gathered for a community conversation about ways to address school segregation in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis Schools Divided

Indiana
4 months ago

IPS board approves changes to magnet admission, opening doors to more diverse schools

The district is shrinking the priority boundary and adding later admission deadlines.

Indianapolis Schools Divided

Indiana
4 months ago

Panelist: Indianapolis should invite the suburbs to help integrate schools

Panelists at a community conversation co-sponsored by Chalkbeat, WFYI, the Central Library and the Indianapolis Star said Wednesday suggested a range of strategies.

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What's your education story?

Indiana
1 week ago

How this teacher went from so nervous her “voice was cracking” to a policy advocate

Jean Russell’s work as 2016 Indiana Teacher of the Year ignited her interest in education policy, and she is in the first cohort of TeachPlus statewide policy fellows.

Indiana

Indiana
1 week ago

20 educators from across Indiana have the chance to transform their profession

Educators from rural, suburban and urban districts across Indiana will join TeachPlus.

School choice

Indiana
1 week ago

Indiana lawmakers are back with an education savings account plan that some advocates have called the “purest form” of school choice

After two quiet attempts last year went nowhere, Indiana lawmakers are back in 2017 pushing for a plan that would allow families direct access to their child’s state education dollars to use for school-related expenses. The “education savings account” proposal in Senate Bill 534, originally proposed in two bills last year that did not end […]

School choice

Indiana
2 weeks ago

It started with vouchers and charter schools. Now Indiana’s exploring more ways for kids to learn outside traditional public schools.

The program is already gaining attention nationally for being at the forefront of school choice strategies.

Rise & Shine

The basics of education in Indiana

The basics of...

Indiana
3 months ago

The basics of Jennifer McCormick: Political newcomer struggles to set herself apart

The New Castle native has spent her career in Yorktown, a traditional public school district in northeastern Indiana that enrolls about 2,500 students K-12.

2016 Indiana governor race

Indiana
3 months ago

The basics of Eric Holcomb on education: Moving past the policy wars

The Republican candidate for governor wants to set a new tone for talking about schools.

MAKE SENSE?

Indiana
7 months ago

No Child Left Behind is gone. Here’s how new federal law could affect Indiana schools

As Indiana tries to decide the future of testing in classrooms across the state, it’s also dealing with complicated new federal rules.

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in their own words

National
3 hours ago

As crisis over Trump’s immigrant order mounts, what America’s teachers of refugee students want you to know

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Friday that blocked refugees from coming into the U.S. for 120 days and bars refugees from Syria from entering indefinitely. The order — and subsequent detentions of refugees and other legal immigrants arriving in U.S. airports — prompted dramatic protests across the country and an emergency, late-night […]

Deflating data

Tennessee
1 day ago

One in three Tennessee graduates shouldn’t have received high school diploma, state says

The finding comes out of the State Department of Education’s first examination of high school graduation data.

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National
5 days ago

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