Severe winter weather has forced schools across Indiana to cancel classes numerous times, leaving the question of if that time would need to be made up. Thursday, the Indiana Department of Education released a plan offering schools options to makeup snow days.

The state would move away from controversial Common Core education standards and replace them with curriculum guides written by Indiana officials under a bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday.

A Republican-backed bill to void the Common Core passed a Senate committee Wednesday.

Conservatives and liberals agree on some key criticisms as the new standards roll out in 45 states: that they're a one-size-fits-all approach, create a de facto national curriculum, put too much emphasis on standardized tests and undermine teacher autonomy.

A bill to help young Hoosiers kick-start their education passed the House on Thursday but is expected to face opposition in the Senate.

Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, has not given up. For the third straight year she has convinced the Senate Education Committee to pass a bill that requires schools to teach cursive writing.

Many Hoosier educators took Gov. Mike Pence's remarks about education standards in his State of the State address as an indicator Indiana is moving away from the Common Core. But it wasn't news to the state's top education official, who says that's been the plan all along.

About 2,000 Indianapolis Public School employees are meeting with Superintendent Lewis Ferebee. They will do so online through an interactive web-streamed meeting.

Gov. Mike Pence has laid out an ambitious education agenda for 2014, but he's been purposefully short on the details.