Indiana Education Insight

Out with the old

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 [...]

2025-07-03T10:26:07-05:00July 3rd, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

Big, beautiful tax increase

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 [...]

2025-06-13T09:28:19-05:00June 13th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

No union with Union . . .

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 [...]

2025-05-05T12:15:20-05:00May 5th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

No more zoning defense?

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 [...]

2025-04-11T08:56:24-05:00April 11th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

Not enough to go around

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 [...]

2025-03-28T10:34:10-05:00March 28th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

Try again next year . . .

Senate drops bill on how to teach about America after pushback Editor's note: This story was originally published in the February 14, 2025 issue of Indiana Education Insight. Another fight over regulating how Indiana teachers should teach about American [...]

2025-03-07T10:03:25-05:00March 7th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

Death of DEI in higher ed

Senate bill would ban DEI-specific roles, audits, programming The buzzword of the month emerging in these first weeks of the session of the General Assembly appears to be “DEI.” You may recall we told you while previewing budget discussions [...]

2025-02-14T11:13:03-05:00February 14th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

Diploma crosses finish line

State Board satisfied with new diploma, what you can expect next Through poring over three different drafts, taking in hours of public feedback, and a bit of public shaming from the state’s universities, the Indiana State Board of Education [...]

2025-01-06T10:55:51-05:00January 6th, 2025|Indiana Education Insight|

O’Bannon aid squeezed

ICHE recommends cuts to grant awards after FAFSA changes In a significant move that could affect thousands of Hoosier students, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education plans to reduce the Frank O’Bannon Grant awards for the upcoming academic year. [...]

2024-12-13T11:32:07-05:00December 13th, 2024|Indiana Education Insight|
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