Members of the Indiana board of education say leaders of Thea Bowman Academy followed all the state requirements to seek a new sponsor and were not "authorizer shopping" as they fought to stay open beyond this month. The board voted Wednesday to approve an authorizer associated with a private university to be the new sponsor of the Gary school.

Ball State declined in January to renew the charter for the school, citing management issues and failures to comply with state and federal laws.

While most schools struggle to meet the needs of students who don't speak English, this challenge is especially obvious in rural school districts, where enrollment is decreasing and resources are tight.

The long-struggling Indiana Life Sciences Academy West will close its doors for good in June. The K-8 charter school, which currently serves 479 students, was one of the lowest scoring schools in Indianapolis on last year's state ISTEP test.

Four Indianapolis Public Schools teachers and two principals received the $25,000 Hubbard Life-Changing Teacher Award in a ceremony Wednesday at the Eiteljorg Museum. They were selected from 10 finalists for the teacher award and four finalists for the principal prize.

Prosecutors have charged two Indianapolis Public Schools employees with misdemeanor failure to report for not immediately notifying authorities of sexual abuse allegations against a former counselor.

Historically, both at the state and national levels, girls have rarely made up more than 20 percent of qualifiers at geographic bees.

Public hearings will be held April 6 and 13 about the future of six Indianapolis public schools under state intervention.

The Hancock Madison Shelby Educational Services cooperative, which this year served about 2,500 students in five school corporations, will close at the end of the 2016-17 school year.

The Department of Education ask schools to give students the un-scored questions to help the vendor sharpen the test. Wawasee school officials say they didn't want to give the students those questions on top of the scored test.