Perry Township Schools is raising wages for new and current bus drivers as the district continues to face staffing strains, even though it redrew some school enrollment boundaries earlier this year to try to ease the problem.

Many school corporations now depend on the added funds from local property-tax referendums to consistently pay for teachers, staff, and academic programs.

In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition -- and more people than projected are taking the offer, which might force scrambles to shore up state budgets.

To increase transparency around Indiana students’ education performance, new report cards issued by the state education department are now required to be posted on nearly every Hoosier school’s website.

Some counties are looking for new ways to improve interactions between law enforcement and people experiencing a mental health crisis. The National Alliance on Mental Illness is coordinating with local advisory councils to provide crisis intervention training and resource mapping.

Many experts say it is harmful to isolate children with disabilities. Nationally, however, public districts paid for about 166,000 students with disabilities to attend segregated schools.

A new state report found about 53 percent of Indiana high schoolers who graduated in 2021 went straight to college.

No students are currently studying abroad in Israel, an Indiana University spokesperson confirmed as the Israel-Hamas War rages on.

Indiana University and Purdue University will examine the effectiveness of the state’s Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative, or READI, grant program.

Anne Houtman will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year to "resume scholarly projects she put on hold" when she became president.