Morning Bell: Daniels Takes Questions On Record, Policy Experts Debate Union Strike

Elle Moxley / StateImpact Indiana

Gov. Mitch Daniels accepts congratulations after the Board of Trustees announced he would be the next president of Purdue University.

Daniels seeks pre-eminence for Purdue University in 5 years – “Faculty weren’t shy putting Daniels on the spot regarding policy decisions as governor, especially decisions to cut public education funding.” Lafayette Journal and Courier

Conflict is unavoidable – “More cash for teacher salaries, as the Chicago Teachers Union is demanding, means less for everything else—after-school programs, early childhood initiatives, police, public health, everything.” (Or, as another debater argues today in The New York Times, schools and teachers have been tasked with advancing business policies, not educational goals.)  Flypaper

EVSC, other schools launch ad campaigns to tout benefits of public education – “It’s a marketing campaign aimed at parents considering using Indiana’s voucher program — the nation’s largest — to transfer their children to private schools.” Evansville Courier & Press

Chamber building sold to St. Francis as campus addition – “The three-story, 38,000-square-foot building will be renovated and used for the Keith Busse School of Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership.” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette