As a recent state report shows, the rate of Hoosier high school graduates going to college is at its lowest point in recent history. For some, its the cost keeping them out of classrooms. And a surprisingly high cost is textbooks. But an Indiana initiative is trying to change that, by encouraging college professors to use free open-source textbooks. As IPRs Stephanie Wiechmann reports, its seeing savings for students.

Gov. Eric Holcomb and top Republican lawmakers announced the latest budget proposal Tuesday, which includes the state's biggest investment in K-12 education -- nearly $2 billion in state funding for schools over the next two years.

Indiana University completed repatriation of the remains to Angel Mounds State Historic Site from the school's Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology.

High school courses in areas including cosmetology and culinary arts will keep their state funding in a version of the budget approved by the Senate.