Lowery reflects on tenure as state higher education commissioner As Chris Lowery steps down today after more than three years as Indiana’s commissioner for higher education, he leaves behind a system he believes is better positioned to address the [...]
Pollio settles in at Ivy Tech, wants school to be state workforce engine Ivy Tech Community College President Marty Pollio envisions the state’s largest postsecondary system to become the centerpiece of workforce development in Indiana . . . and [...]
INDLS adds Beech Grove ahead of Union Schools shutdown The Indiana Digital Learning School – long the sole virtual school arm for the Union School Corporation – expands its reach ahead of Union’s impending state-mandated closure, adding Beech Grove [...]
Record jump in IREAD scores for 2025; retention law still looms State education officials celebrate as Indiana’s third grade literacy rates reach a new high, with results from the 2024-2025 IREAD-3 assessment showing a nearly five percentage point increase [...]
Universities deal with state funding cuts amid tuition freeze calls Facing deep state and federal funding cuts and political pressure (with a little shaming) to keep college affordable, Indiana’s public universities are getting squeezed and forced to rethink their [...]
Gov. Braun fires alum-elected IU trustees, appoints familiar faces Roughly one month after he signed the state budget giving him full control over appointments to the Indiana University Board of Trustees, Governor Mike Braun (R) swiftly fires the remaining [...]
Fed’l endowment tax discussion worries some Indiana colleges The Trump Administration’s plan to heavily tax some private university endowments under the sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is largely crafted to target the elite schools, such as the Ivy [...]
House GOP folds Union School Corp. dissolution into SB 1 Editor's note: This story was originally published in the April 11, 2025 issue of Indiana Education Insight. Deep within the 400 pages of the House Republican Caucus’ version of [...]
Behning: Local gov’ts can’t use zoning to block charter schools A zoning fight over a charter school location in Indianapolis last year ruffled feathers of charter proponents – and apparently House Committee on Education Chair Bob Behning (R) of [...]
House budget skips capital projects; other higher ed requests “You can’t have it all” is the message state legislators seem to be sending with the current iteration of the state budget that passed the House – particularly for the [...]