A recent state report found the Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy enrolled thousands of students who never took a course and some who didnt even know they were enrolled.

Legislation to ban handheld cell phone use while driving appears headed to passage after a Senate committee easily approved the measure.

More than 100 advocates gathered in support of stricter tobacco laws at the Statehouse Tuesday.

Teachers once again gathered at the Statehouse, following up on their Red for Ed rally in November. The Indiana Coalition for Public Education demanded action from legislators.

Indiana lawmakers are trying to ensure low-income families whose children get a paid internship arent penalized when it comes to government benefits.

Accommodations for pregnant employees are unlikely to be restored. A one-year extension for Indiana's syringe exchange programs is possible. And a bill to eliminate the state's remaining township assessors is dead. Here's what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.

The General Assembly eliminated nearly a thousand township assessors in 2008. But it let voters in the largest townships decide whether to keep theirs and 13 assessors across the state remain.

The bill grants a two-year delay on schools receiving a lower A-F state rating based on scores from the 2019 or 2020 ILEARN exams. It also prevents the scores from being used in teacher evaluations.

Indiana House leaders say theyll try to extend by at least one year local syringe exchange programs that are set to expire in 2021. The programs are in danger of elimination after the Senate rejected an effort to extend them indefinitely.

Indiana lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow children as young as 12 years old to be tried as an adult in the criminal justice system.