Stories about paying the costs of education.
Sixty-seven Indiana districts have put 88 school questions on the ballot in the last five years.
Five of the seven Indiana school corporations pursuing tax levy increases succeeded in Tuesday’s special election.
School funding experts say it’s too soon to tell if Indiana schools will be forced into a constant cycle of construction referenda, but some districts are already looking ahead.
Seven Indiana school corporations are holding a special election May 7 to ask voters to approve tax levy increases.
Indiana lawmakers are considering forgiving $12 million in loans given to struggling charter schools for start-up costs.
A targeted preschool program for at-risk 4-year-olds is likely to cost Indiana at least $125 million.
State senators scrapped a House plan to fund a small-scale preschool pilot in favor of expanding Indiana’s voluntary rating system for child care providers, but early education advocates say it won’t get the job done.
Students in some Indiana school corporations could see steadily increasing school lunch prices in years to come until their districts satisfy a new mandate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, our colleagues at Indiana Public Media report. That’s because USDA officials say some schools are charging less than the $2.86 per meal they receive from the federal [...]
We do some back-of-the-napkin calculations and try to make the “indeterminable”… somewhat less indeterminable.
The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation faces a budget shortfall of $6 million due to property tax caps this year.
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