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Teach for America will send 40 more teachers to Indianapolis next year after receiving a grant from The Mind Trust.
Opponents of the nationally-crafted standards have pulled off an improbable end-run around Common Core supporters.
Common Core skeptics coalesced Tuesday around the #StopCommonCore hashtag. Supporters responded with their own hashtag, #SupportTheCore.
With Indiana’s statewide teacher evaluation mandate taking effect this year, some state lawmakers say they want those ratings to reflect not only on educators but on where they went to college.
A tie in the Indiana Senate forced Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann to step in to cast the deciding vote Wednesday on a bill that removes requirements for district superintendents to hold a license. It’s the first time in eight years the lieutenant governor has had to intervene in such a way. IPBS statehouse reporter Brandon Smith has [...]
Opponents of the proposal to halt implementation of the Common Core standards say the fight isn’t over.
Members of the Senate panel voted 8-4 Wednesday to drop a proposal to fund a 1,000-student preschool pilot program in five Indiana counties.
After Indy’s mayor shut down The Project School, a group of 20 defiant parents decided to open a school of their own. With basically no money.
Debate over Indiana’s time zone was once thought to be a “third rail” of state politics until Gov. Mitch Daniels put the Hoosier State on daylight saving time in 2006. But the South Bend school board wants to jump-start the debate once more, reports The South Bend Tribune: At the board’s next meeting April 8, it’ll [...]
School districts say they still want job candidates with teaching degrees even after the Indiana State Board of Education passed a rule change that allows adjunct permit holders to become educators.
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