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Students don’t need to prove that they qualify for free meals, based on family income. Anyone under the age of 18 can eat for free.
IPS served more than 59,000 free breakfasts and lunches to students this past summer.
We don’t usually publish book reviews on StateImpact, but since it’s the holiday season, we thought you may enjoy West Lafayette Public Library Director Nick Schenkel’s review of the book “Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult”
Thanks to the generosity of local musicians and artists, the charity’s first fundraising project, a locally produced cd, called “Heat Is Where The Heart Is,” is ready to be released this Saturday, at Neat Neat Neat Records and Music.
Uzuri Asad home-schools her four children ranging in age from four to 12 years old. Class begins every morning with meditation.
A lot of afternoons they end up at the Indianapolis Public Library, which has a center dedicated to black literature and culture.
“As a country in general – there’s a cultural bias, of course, because the story tellers are going to make themselves look the best,” Uzuri says. “If you’re educating in a diverse environment then you need to present educational materials that are diverse as well.”
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A new report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse finds teens are using many substances at historically low rates and Indiana teens are in line with national trends.
The annual Monitoring the Future study has tracked drug use trends for eighth, 10th and 12th graders for over 40 years.
This year marks the lowest rates of illicit drug use, including prescription opioids. But vaping is on the rise and Indiana Youth Institute President Tami Silverman says that lines up with their Kids Count data.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, or WHIN, which includes Purdue President Mitch Daniels and several Purdue trustees, will send the cash to the school’s Birck Nanotechnology Center, where much of the research will be done.
But the issue of what will be invented is still very much up in the air. WHIN board member Todd Miller is the CEO of Myers Spring, a Logansport spring manufacturer. He says he can envision ways his company might benefit.
The Department of Education sent a memo last month detailing services it won’t provide money for in new Special Education Excess Cost contracts this year, which includes transportation. (WFIU/WTIU)
The Indiana Department of Education is short on money to help schools provide additional special education services for the second year in a row. The department says an uptick in students with disabilities and increased service costs have squeezed that piece of the state budget about halfway through the fiscal year.
If schools have special education service needs that cost more than what’s already in the school’s budget, they can ask the state for some extra cash, but the fund for so-called Special Education Excess Costs (SEEC) will run out early this year. That means the department has to scale back the costs they’re willing to provide funding for. Pam Wright, head of the department’s special education office, says the issue has the department considering some changes to the way it provides those funds.
District officials say the new funds are essential to ensure annual pay raises for teachers, enhance special education services and improve safety and security measures at all buildings.
Without the funding, the IPS officials say, a hiring freeze on teachers and staff, cuts to academic programs and reduced transportation services.
“Our goal ultimately is to ensure our students receive the highest quality education that they are entitled to,” says IPS chief of staff Ahmed Young. “In order to do that we have to presume this referendum on the operating and capital side.”
Advocates say stressed out students don’t absorb information well. (Peter Balonon-Rosen/IPB News)
Indiana lawmakers and state officials say addressing the state’s ongoing opioid addiction crisis is a top priority for 2018, and education advocates say those goals fit in with something teachers need to learn more about: trauma-informed care.
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