Gov. Mike Pence promised to expand opportunities for charter schools in speech Tuesday July 28th at the Indianapolis conference of a private charter school company.

The state Department of Education announced today that Indiana has received a three-year extension from the U.S. Department of Education for the state's No Child Left Behind waiver. This flexible status exempts the state from various provisions of the federal education law.

Indiana's new A-to-F school letter grade model was given final approval today for use during the 2015-16 school year.

The Indiana Department of Education issued licenses to about 5,599 teachers in 2009-10, and in '13-14 that number sat closer to 4,500.

Indiana has an early answer to a heated two-year-old debate about whether it needed a special teaching permit for teachers changing careers to get them into the classroom more quickly.

Summer may be in full swing, but school issues are still front and center following the conclusion of the Indiana legislature's 2015 "education session."

There's been a lot of emphasis in recent years about making sure Indiana high school students are "college and career ready" upon graduation. But is it possible to accomplish both? Or would a more accurate goal be for students to be college or career ready?

The number of students enrolled in the state-funded voucher program that allows them to attend private schools is growing exponentially, according to an updated report released from the Department of Education last week.

Indiana's school voucher program cost the state $40 million in 2014-15, according to a report out today from the state Department of Education. The cost is a 153 percent increase from last year's report which found for the first time the program did not generate a savings.

Indiana students would be required to take more math, science, and social studies classes and two new classes will become mandatory - a career prep class and a financial literacy course.