We might get a better idea Thursday how Indiana General Assembly members will resolve their differences over proposals to expand the state’s private school voucher program and halt implementation of the Common Core academic standards in schools. A deal on the state’s two-year budget is also close, Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said Wednesday. Lawmakers are hoping to [...]
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.
We’ll learn Monday what will become of Indiana Senate proposals to offer in-state college tuition to some undocumented immigrants and to set aside state grant money for school resource officers.
We do some back-of-the-napkin calculations and try to make the “indeterminable”… somewhat less indeterminable.
One day after the state’s highest court gave its blessing to Indiana’s private school voucher initiative, lawmakers altered course in their attempt to expand the program’s eligibility requirements.
A proposed preschool program would cost $6,800 per student enrolled — an amount that Indiana Sen. Jean Leising says “struck [her] as high for preschool.”
Two weeks after Republican House members approved their proposed state budget, Senate lawmakers formally began debate on the two-year spending plan today. Both Gov. Mike Pence and House Republicans called for spending more than $15.3 billion on K-12 education; the total amounts the two sides propose to spend on K-12 education are only $74 million [...]
The two sides’ K-12 budgets are not as far apart as the friction over the tax cut suggests.
New state superintendent Glenda Ritz faces a steep challenge: navigate the tricky politics of the Republican-controlled statehouse.
Even in the traditionally tax-averse GOP, Pence is having a tough time getting Republicans in the Indiana General Assembly to agree with his proposed tax cut.
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