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’ve reached the point in the session where several proposed education bills are moving through the General Assembly.
Public statements of the House Education Committee chair and Gov. Mike Pence suggest the debate over voucher expansion might not be over just yet.
The federal government won’t shut down on March 27 — that’s the good news. But the continuing resolution the House approved Thursday locks in many of the education-related sequestration cuts for the duration of the fiscal year. From Ed Money Watch: Policymakers opted not to restore funding to key programs like Title I grants for [...]
A week after a crowd of 1,000 or more turned out to the Indiana Statehouse at a rally supporting the state’s charter schools and voucher programs, a group that opposes charters and vouchers is scheduled to hold a Statehouse rally of its own.
Indiana lawmakers are considering changes to a state law that currently requires public school districts to sell vacant buildings to charter operators for $1. It’s one of the education stories we’re keeping an eye on in the coming week, as a bill amending those guidelines is headed for a vote in the Senate Education Committee on [...]
Next week we’ll continue covering what the automatic federal spending cuts mean for Indiana schools.
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Indiana Department of Education officials will publicly release the results of the ISTEP+ exam Tuesday.
Coming Up This Week Friday: ”Divorces” (of sorts) are on the agenda when Indiana’s Select Commission on Education meets in the statehouse chambers. To be specific, the Commission will consider “the feasibility of establishing a process by which residents of a part of an existing school corporation may elect to disannex from an existing school corporation” to [...]
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