Indiana
The rates are the highest in a decade, and the percentage of students graduating without a waiver increased from 2023 to 2024.
As lawmakers create the next state budget, they may seek to fund an expansion of school vouchers and pay raises for teachers. But the state’s revenue forecast could complicate matters.
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Trips to the post office, Statehouse, and polling station are all part of the practical education that Laura Hinz teaches her students.
Schools can adopt the new requirements, which offer 3 graduation pathways for students, as early as next year.
Officials say the community has made clear the need for a small school. Craig Prep will have an Afrocentric focus in a district where roughly 45% of the district’s students are Black.
A new apprenticeship allows Indiana high school students to graduate qualified to work in early education. Another allows high school graduates to earn a teaching degree while working in a classroom.
The district’s new middle school model had a rough start for some students at schools like Broad Ripple Middle School. But other families are celebrating the new classes and activities.
The paid apprenticeships through EmployIndy could serve as a roadmap of what’s to come for other Indiana high schoolers.
Broad Ripple Middle School opened this year as part of Rebuilding Stronger, the IPS restructuring plan. But the change led some families to leave.
A 2024 survey of Indiana counselors found they don’t have enough time to help students.
The schools as a whole show mixed results on tests such as the state’s ILEARN and IREAD exams.
Democratic lawmaker Sheila Klinker plans to again introduce legislation mandating $60,000 minimum salaries for teachers.
While test results for K-8 Innovation Network schools haven’t significantly boosted the district’s academic performance, Innovation high schools show better results.
Programs like Indiana Learns that relied on federal emergency funding are in jeopardy, but there’s still time for families to use the grants until March.
Legislative leaders urged caution on property tax reform, a priority for Governor-elect Mike Braun.
Lawrence Township board passes 4.5% pay raise for teachers and 3.5% for administrators, but remains divided on raises for administrators.
Deandra Thompson would fill the seat left vacant by the incumbent she beat in the November election for IPS school board.
IPS board vice president Kenneth Allen was appointed as Center Township constable days after losing a second term in office. His resignation from the IPS school board leaves a vacancy for the last two months of his term.