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.
The Julia Carson Learning Resource Center will house the Indianapolis campus's library and tutoring labs, a local bus
hub and a 500-space parking garage.
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.
After 10-month search, Purdue University officials broaden quest for new permanent dean for Krannert School of Management.
School officials hope to have position filled by spring.
Beginning this summer, the Department of Agriculture will house Indiana FFA's executive offices.
One-time events influenced bottom lines of some of the few companies that made more money in 2009.
About 75 percent of Indiana students passed this year's statewide English and math exams—a significant improvement
over the 2009 test results.
The Obama administration proposed banning for-profit colleges, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc., from
tying recruiters’ pay to the number of people they enroll, saying high-pressure sales tactics induced students to take
out government loans they can’t afford.
The Indianapolis-based Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is contributing $20 million to support IUPUI’s effort to open
a school of public health.
Newsweek's list of top high schools, released Monday, ranks more than 1,600 schools, including 28 in Indiana.
WGU Indiana is a branch of Western Governors University, a private, not-for-profit university designed for working adults
trying to earn bachelor’s or master’s degrees.
ITT Educational Services Inc., Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp. and other for-profit educators
are under increasing federal scrutiny over their recruitment practices and the level of student loan defaults.
Simon Youth Foundation, a local not-for-profit, helps at-risk high school students across the country by partnering with local
school systems.
The state is building a massive data system with a tough-love intent of rewarding good educators and schools and hammering
poor performers.
The leader of Indiana’s largest teachers union says if Congress approves up to $300 million for Indiana schools, it could
save as many as 7,200 public school employee jobs, including those of Indiana teachers, teaching assistants and bus drivers.
IU says the gift from Frank Arganbright was the first single donation of at least $1 million for scholarships from an individual
in the history of the journalism school.
A sweeping proposal calls for schools to provide recruits a written summary of their schools’ policies on everything from
medical-insurance limits to athlete-transfer rates and scholarship renewals, all within a week of contact.
Charities and not-for-profits are trying to broaden their appeal to younger adults without turning off older stalwarts.
A couple of Hoosier entrepreneurs think they can take their career information web site national.
The head of a national teachers union said Indiana’s Department of Education is among the three most hostile to teachers in
the country.
