Sim 4 Stem, launched by two former professional female athletes, is launching next month with events geared around the Indianapolis 500. One of the group’s founders, Nicci Daly, is the niece of retired racer Derek Daly of Carmel.
Under pressure from local schools and fellow Republican lawmakers, GOP leaders opted to decrease the amount dedicated to paying down the unfunded liability in pre-1996 Teacher Retirement Fund and shift an additional $312 million to K-12 schools.
Indiana Republican state Senators signaled their final approval Tuesday of a bill that would remove the requirement for administrators to discuss some topics with a teachers union representative.
James Danko has led a significant transformation of the Butler campus, including nearly $500 million in capital improvement projects to upgrade academic, research, residential, performance and athletic spaces.
Indiana’s lawmakers are nearing the end of a grueling nearly four-month legislative session, but three of their biggest priorities—aside from the budget—remain unresolved.
The premature end of the IU Health partnership could leave a large number of IPS schools without a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to dispense medication or respond to health emergencies.
A group of advocates known as the Butler-Tarkington Education Committee has submitted their vision for James Whitcomb Riley School 43 and is working with IPS on a memorandum of understanding about how to overhaul the school.
The most glaring contrast between the Senate and House proposals is the way in which they intend to expand funding to charter schools.
The blueprint includes campus-specific plans for the university’s six campuses outside Bloomington, including IUPUI, which is set to be renamed IU Indianapolis under a realignment plan.
An Indiana school district did not violate a former music teacher’s rights by pushing him to resign after the man refused to use transgender students’ names and gender pronouns, a federal appeals court said in an order released Friday.
Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston maintained Thursday that virtual charter schools deserve equal funding and denied that a virtual education company he consults for would unfairly benefit from a tax increase proposed in the state budget.
A $2.6 million grant from the Indiana Department of Education, announced Feb. 21, will help expand a program offered by the IUPUI Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering.
That means school board races will stay non-partisan—at least for now. Language from the bill could still crop up in others before the end of the current legislative session.
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.
Stephen Lane, an advocate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, was appointed Thursday to the Indianapolis Public Library Board of Trustees by the Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners.
The ACLU said it stands by its arguments that the Indiana law violates federal Title IX protections—and indicated that it could file future legal challenges on behalf of other transgender students.
IPS heads into the new year amid public disagreement between district officials and some charters over how much funding from the referendum should be split up between different schools, if voters approve it.
Indiana State University on Friday announced the largest individual donation in the school’s 157-year history after the board of trustees approved the naming of the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology on the Terre Haute campus.
