Interventions by state officials next month in as many as 18 struggling schools will open Indiana to a new and unproven breed of private education entities that have sprung up in just the past decade. That introduction is likely to be smaller than originally thought, but have far-reaching ramifications.
Companies that drop insurance coverage could, without spending any more money than they are now, give workers an 11-percent raise or else help them save as much as $2,000 per year buying health coverage in one of the exchanges, IBJ calculations show.
Purdue University President France Cordova says she'll step down when her contract expires in 2012. She succeeded Martin Jischke at the helm of the public university in 2007.
The Indiana State Teachers Association filed the lawsuit in Marion County on Friday seeking to block the state’s new school voucher law. Plaintiffs include teachers, school administrators, clergy and taxpayers.
The IMA is back to using traditional security guards after IUPUI vetoed its plan to use federally funded work-study students.
A nearly $79,000 grant from the Central Indiana Community Foundation will be used to help Marion County high schools track where their students go after graduation.
Purdue University scientists have won a $5 million federal grant to help corn and soybean farmers adapt to the various climate change scenarios global warming is forecast to bring in the coming decades.
Purdue University spent nearly $500,000 to develop and promote a marketing campaign that angered many students and alumni who thought the school was straying from its traditional image as the Boilermakers.
Indiana University says nearly 500 employees have joined an early-retirement program expected to save the university $6 million a year.
An Indianapolis charter school marked for closure by Mayor Greg Ballard posted huge gains in ISTEP scores this year, and school leaders plan to ask Ballard to reconsider his decision.
Indiana's education chief has appointed a former charter school teacher to lead the state's efforts to turn around 18 chronically failing schools.
The city hopes to buy the 12 acres—previously earmarked for a research hub—for $9.3 million and then sell it to a developer.
The Institute for Civic Leadership & Mayoral Archives will house a collection of official documents, correspondence, speeches, photos, audiotapes and other artifacts from the administrations of four Indianapolis mayors: Dick Lugar, Bill Hudnut, Steve Goldsmith and Bart Peterson.
The Indiana Department of Education is paying more than $680,000 to The MindTrust, a locally based not-for-profit, to develop other ways to oversee troubled schools than the traditional elected school board.
After a nearly year-long search, Indianapolis seminary taps University of Chicago and Harvard Divinity School grad as new leader.
Corporations staged advances across a variety of industries in 2010 as the economy improved.
John Reed resigned as head of Medora Community School because he doesn't think the small district can afford a full-time superintendent any more.
Hoosier schools chief Tony Bennett is embracing the role of pitchman as the Department of Education makes the changes he campaigned so hard for over the last few years real.
A $13.5 million center aimed at training workers to fill manufacturing jobs that are growing steadily more complex is opening in central Indiana.
Even after 45 seniors from Indianapolis Metropolitan High School grabbed their diplomas and threw their mortar boards at a June 4 commencement, they knew they wouldn’t lose touch with their school. It’s not allowed at Indy Met.
