Most of the legislation passed by the General Assembly last session goes into affect July 1. Here is a list of this year's new laws.

The panel met for the second time Tuesday. It has six more meetings before the December deadline to submit its redesign plan.

The state Board of Education has scheduled five public hearings for schools in Indianapolis, Gary, East Chicago and Evansville that have been placed in the lowest category of school improvement for five straight years.

Yorktown school Superintendent Jennifer McCormick today was named the Republican choice to challenge incumbent Democrat Glenda Ritz in the November election for state superintendent at Indiana's GOP convention in Indianapolis.

In general, U.S. schools send home about one in 16 students. Indiana schools choose exclusionary discipline more often, sending home one in 14 students.

The Indiana State Board of Accounts has asked retired Superintendent William Pfister and retired Assistant Superintendent Richard Sopko repay the northwestern Indiana school district for overpayments to their annuities, plus overpaid bonuses, salaries and other compensation.

The State Superintendent says it's among the Department of Education's top policy priorities heading into the next legislative session.

With enrollment and funding dropping in rural school districts across Educators are left with another challenge: find money to school the students who remain.

Delegates to the upcoming Indiana Republican convention will be choosing between a school district administrator and a tea party-backed college instructor to become their candidate for state schools superintendent.

Thousands of low-income Indiana high school students who are eligible for a lucrative college scholarship are in danger of losing out on four years of paid tuition if they don't meet a host of new requirements.