Morning Bell: Mostly Non-Election Links On Election Day

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The day has finally arrived.

Is Superintendent Tony Bennett’s Re-Election in Jeopardy? – “For me the biggest surprise in the Howey-DePauw poll was not the Mourdock-Donnelly-Horning result, but the finding that incumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett only leads challenger Democrat Glenda Ritz by 40-36, with 24% undecided.” Ogden on Politics

Indiana’s air ball on national education standards – State superintendent Tony Bennett “has been facing increasingly heated opposition from across the state for discarding Indiana’s K-12 state education standards for the qualitatively weaker national ‘Common Core’ standards,” writes an opponent of said standards. Rock The Schoolhouse

Fire code issues abound at Gary schools – “Nearly all the schools in the Gary Community School Corp. have been cited for serious fire code violations by the Gary Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Bureau.” Gary Post-Tribune

Record Number of Young Americans Earn Bachelor’s Degree – “This year, for the first time, a third of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have earned at least a bachelor’s degree. That share has been slowly edging up for decades, from fewer than one-fifth of young adults in the early 1970s to 33 percent this year.” The New York Times

STEM Jobs Becoming Larger Emphasis in Indiana – “Indiana needs more workers educated in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).” Indiana Chamber of Commerce