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Indiana

B.J. Watts

left behind

Indiana
September 17, 2019

Hidden dropouts: How Indiana schools can write off struggling students as home-schoolers

When students are recorded as leaving to home-school in Indiana, they’re left out of a school’s graduation calculations, as though they never attended at all.

where the money goes

Indiana
July 10, 2019

‘How did we miss this?’ Indiana officials blast lack of oversight in $40M virtual school scandal

The schools’ oversight agency, Daleville Community Schools, bore the brunt of the board’s blame for the online schools’ alleged abuse of millions in public dollars.

Politics & Policy

Indiana
July 1, 2015

Ritz's plan for A-to-F grade 'pause' met by state board doubts

Board members asked Attorney General Greg Zoeller to review education department proposals.

Leadership & Management

Indiana
May 19, 2015

Teachers union to Pence: Reappoint Cari Whicker to the state board

A teachers union list of recommendations for who Gov. Mike Pence should appoint to the Indiana State Board of Education is telling for who it suggests, and who it doesn't

Leadership & Management

Indiana
May 4, 2015

Indiana State Board of Education in limbo after legislature's move

Gov. Mike Pence made a bold call in December for big changes he said would “restore harmony” to the contentious Indiana State Board…

Leadership & Management

Indiana
June 5, 2014

A case study in Indiana State Board of Education dysfunction

How did a seemingly simple procedural change, one that Indiana State Board of Education members and state Superintendent Glenda Ritz unanimously favored, become a half-hour…

Teaching & Classroom

Indiana
May 23, 2014

Union calls on state board to drop teacher licensure plan

The Indiana State Teachers Association and others are pushing hard to try to stop what they view as a loosening of teacher certification rules, but so far most of the state board members who favor those changes are standing by them.
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