Eight of ten school referenda passed Tuesday – an effort for districts to ask voters through a ballot referenda process to raise property taxes to help fund their schools. Basically, the ballot question asks voters to pay more in property taxes so the schools have more funding. Primaries are much quieter than November elections, and this can bode well for […]
Each season, state recruiters set out on a mission: Find, recruit and enroll migrant children and workers for public migrant school services.
The new plan will expand state-funded preschool to 20 counties, tie it to the state’s private school voucher program and include a controversial option for online preschool.
A non-profit Indianapolis group – the Indiana Charter Network – partnered with the for-profit Charter Schools USA to open two K-8 college prep schools.
An interim emergency manager will be appointed to make financial decisions until December, giving the district time to enact their deficit reduction plan.
Per-student tuition would increase to $6,614 in 2017-18 and $6,709 in 2018-19 — up from the current average of $6,540.
Out with ISTEP. In with ILEARN.
Currently the program serves about 1,500 students in five counties.
It’s an issue that Indiana lawmakers have declined to substantively take-up or require for the past five years. Until now, lawmakers have killed the handwriting issue almost immediately.
The Muncie Community Schools school board held an emergency meeting last week to discuss ways to reduce the district’s debt. This comes after the legislature include Muncie in a bill that would assign a state appointed financial advisor to the district, to help reduce the $19 million debt it currently carries.
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