At Thursday night’s Gary Community School Corporation board meeting, district leaders shared news that brought both celebration and concern, highlighting the complicated road ahead for the city’s public schools. Renita Craig, director of curriculum and assessment, announced that Gary schools have secured an $800,000 Next Generation School Improvement Grant from the Indiana Department of Education. […]
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‘A Giant Leap Backwards’: Indiana Opts Out of Summer Program for Hungry Schoolchildren
This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. Last summer, hundreds of thousands of Hoosier families who qualify for food benefits and reduced-price school meals got a summertime boost: $120 per child monthly for food while schools were closed. But relief for those 669,000 children may only have been a one-time blip. Indiana […]
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How Gary Students Can Get Tutoring Support for Standardized Tests
Standardized testing season is approaching, and for many Gary students, the stakes are high. Students who don’t pass Indiana’s standardized exams face additional studying requirements or are required to take summer school, but for third-graders, the consequences are even more severe. Those who fail the state’s reading assessment risk being held back and required to […]
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Confused About High School Diploma Changes? We Explain the Proposal.
This story was originally published by Mirror Indy. State education officials are revealing more details about their plan to rework Indiana high school graduation requirements. The officials recently submitted a detailed proposal of what courses students would need to graduate amid a push to create more flexible diploma paths that encourage teens to seek more […]
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Indiana Tells Schools to Ignore LGBTQ Student Protections as Title IX Fight Begins
This story was originally published by WFYI Indiana’s education department is telling school districts not to adopt new federal protections for LGBTQ+ students and sex-based discrimination until several lawsuits challenging the regulations, including one by the state’s attorney general, are settled. The new Title IX guidelines, released by the U.S. Department of Education, forbids discrimination […]
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Indiana’s AG Launched a Tip Line for Controversial Classroom Material
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters The Indiana attorney general has unveiled an online portal for complaints about the teaching of race, gender, and political ideology in schools — an aggressive move that raises concerns about privacy and the veracity of the material made public. The new […]
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Private School Enrollment Grew in Indiana This Year, but Vouchers Are Growing Faster
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Private school enrollment in Indiana continued to grow steadily this school year, though the number of students using vouchers grew at a faster rate, new data from the Indiana Department of Education shows. The number of students in public schools, meanwhile, […]
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Thousands of Indiana Students Move On to Fourth Grade Without Reading Skills, Despite State Policy
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Thousands of Indiana students advanced through elementary school without demonstrating critical reading skills, new data from the Indiana Department of Education shows, as state lawmakers consider requiring more students who struggle with reading to repeat third grade. It’s the state’s policy […]