Indiana lands $59 million for charter school expansion
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick said federal award will go to a minimum of 50 schools.
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick said federal award will go to a minimum of 50 schools.
Researchers at Indiana University and Purdue University have received $2.55 million from Susan G. Komen to study possible new treatments.
The preschool program for children from low-income families previously was offered in just five counties, but lawmakers recently expanded it.
An administrator said the move was aimed at helping teachers "find the right fit,' but a union official called it "total disruption."
Purdue University says a veteran university administrator will guide its Fort Wayne campus while it transitions away from shared governance with Indiana University.
A state-appointed emergency manager began operating the school district six weeks ago after elected trustees failed to pass balanced budgets and ran up more than $100 million in debt.
Purdue University says it has won U.S. Education Department approval to move forward with its plan to acquire for-profit Kaplan University and operate it online as Purdue NewU.
Indiana officials are also trying to advance “reverse transfer” policies statewide as a tool to increase Indiana’s college attainment rate.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will conclude her national "Rethink School" tour in Indiana.
Julie Bakehorn, a prize-winning principal with a record of turning around schools, was replaced as head of Arsenal Technical High School this week.
TechPoint, a not-for-profit advocacy group, plans to use the money on two programs to nurture young tech talent.
Tens of thousands of former students who say they were swindled by for-profit college operators like ITT Educational are being left in limbo as the Trump administration delays action on requests for loan forgiveness.
Some Purdue faculty members who question those plans say they're worried about the reputation of Kaplan University and parent company, Kaplan Higher Education.
Indiana University will host Charleston Southern on Oct. 7, replacing this Saturday’s home football game against Florida International University that was canceled so the Miami-based school could deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
The five-year grant from the National Science Foundation is expected to provide an early boost to Purdue’s new engineering research center.
Purdue officials say the West Lafayette campus has 1,122 more students than it did a year ago.
IU officials say the school system enrolled 94,698 students statewide this fall, a decrease of 0.7 percent from last year.
At least three Indiana school districts that hired the startup firm True Consultant Service LLC to revamp bus routes ran into major problems when school began this summer, forcing administrators to apologize to parents and reverse course.
Before Mitch Daniels took the helm, the university used its intellectual property to create about eight startups annually. The school has been averaging nearly three times that each year since.
The SEC in a blistering 56-page suit had charged that the pair concealed the company’s rapidly eroding financial condition and “routinely misled” the firm’s outside accounting firm, PwC. It’s not clear what the terms of the settlements were.