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State awards grants for education technology programs
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – State Superintendent Glenda Ritz announced the winners Tuesday of two sets of grants focused on technology. More than two dozen school districts and educational groups have received Technology Resource Grants from the Indiana Department of Education. They are meant to help organizations purchase technology resources for student instruction in career [...]
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Pence: Stats show vouchers are not hurting students in public schools
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com Gov. Mike Pence told a gathering of school choice advocates on Monday in Washington D.C. that recent graduation rates and standardized test scores prove Indiana’s private school voucher system is not hurting public schools. Pence used statistics released in just the past few months – data from only the first year [...]
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Video & story: Butler among schools making internships part of curriculum
A day in the life of a Butler University intern from TheStatehouseFile.com on Vimeo. By Samantha Pierson, Kori Steer and Jack Messer TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – About 80 percent of Butler students do some form of career related activities before they graduate. Read more: Colleges make hands-on learning opportunities part of curriculum They can be [...]
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State graduation rate keeps increasing
Staff reporter TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s graduation rate inched up to 88.4 percent in 2012, the Department of Education announced Monday. The rate was 86.6 percent in 2011 and has been steadily increases. State Superintendent Glenda Ritz had no immediate comment on the new rate. The graduation rate is considered a “cohort” rate because [...]
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DOE launches summer reading initiative
By Megan Banta TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announced the start of “Hoosier Family of Readers,” the Indiana Department of Education’s statewide literacy initiative, on Friday. “School is about to end for the summer, but in Indiana, learning never ends,” Ritz said in a prepared statement.. “This summer, we will be [...]
Commentary: Bear crawling our way to better teacher evaluations
By Cam Savage TheStatehouseFile.com Disgusting images of blistered and blackened hands notwithstanding, the four Cascade High School coaches who forced their charges to bear crawl for up to a mile as punishment for missing track practice last week will keep their teaching jobs in the Mill Creek Community School Corporation. School district officials took swift [...]
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Pence signs voucher expansion bill into law
By Samm Quinn TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Thursday that will expand the state’s school voucher program in front of 150 students, including some who already are benefiting from the program. Students from seven different private vouchers schools met at the Calvary Christian School auditorium with signs that said, [...]
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Pence signs law to fund resource officers at schools
By JesselynBickley TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill Tuesday that creates a grant program to fund resource officers with the goal of increasing school safety. Pence said he won’t stop at signing the bill, though. The governor has created a working group to consider other changes that could enhance school safety. Meanwhile [...]
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Video & story: Pence set to sign school safety bill; officers to be more than protection
By Jesselyn Bickley TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Legislation set to be signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday will make money available to schools to hire resource officers – specially trained staff whose jobs are about far more than keeping students safe from outside threats. The officers – which a few schools already have [...]
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Commentary: Graduation marks more than academic achievement
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – It’s graduation day. They march, one after another, across the stage, do the handshake, take their diplomas and then step off into the future. I’m attending graduations this season as a father, as a teacher and as a friend. As ceremonies go, graduations can be strange things – stiff, [...]