Gary Community Schools will continue to be managed by MGT Consulting Group after the state board charged with overseeing the Gary school district votes May 26 to extend its management contract with MGT. You’ll remember that the legislature assumed [...]
The Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation Board of Education votes to increase its bus drivers’ pay, raising rates to $100 per route, amid the national bus driver shortage. The increase will go into effect starting next school year. Additionally, [...]
Several childcare providers in Indianapolis shut their doors on Monday, May 9, as part of “A Day Without Child Care: National Day of Action,” as “educators and advocates demand policymakers invest in the child care system to provide racial [...]
Applications are open for the Indiana Employability Skills Innovation and Implementation Grant. The Indiana Department of Education grant is available for Indiana schools seeking support in integrating Indiana Employability Skills into their curriculum. By integrating curriculum supporting Indiana Employability [...]
The latest edition of Indiana Youth Institute’s annual Kids Count data book, a treasure trove which compiles dozens of measures of the well-being of Hoosier youth, features data from 2020, making it the first compilation to look at data [...]
While rules of the Indianapolis-based National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) prohibit athletes, staff members, conference employees and university leaders from gambling on sports and bar those same individuals from providing information to anyone associated with sports wagering, the Mid-American [...]
South Bend Community Schools is collaborating with city leaders to provide students in the surrounding area with better internet access. The plan is to create a private Long Term Evolution (LTE) service owned by the school district to give [...]
School districts continue to cash in on the trend to add naming rights to their facilities to help address budget deficiencies. Most recently, the Interra Credit Union logo now adorns the Goshen High School court, after the gym was [...]
As March Madness® was drawing to a close, the Inside Higher Ed website, dedicated to higher education news, observes that “a record number of students” were among the record number (45 million) of Americans placing wagers on the event, [...]
The Crown Point Community School Corporation adds an electric school bus to its fleet, thanks to a grant acquired in partnership with Drive Clean Indiana. “Our district is proud to add electric transportation with the purchase of this bus. [...]