Conservative candidates hoped to take over school boards across Indiana this past election cycle. But the results were mixed.

Conservative school board candidates across Indiana are campaigning on so-called parental rights platforms.

Organizers for Valor Classical Academy, a proposed charter school linked to a conservative private college, have filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Superior Court against Carmel Clay Schools to settle a dispute over who can use a shuttered school building.

The Carmel Clay Schools is adding wand metal detectors after a man was arrested when a handgun fell from his pocket during a July 26 school board meeting.

Carmel Clay Schools is asking Hamilton County voters to approve a $40 million property tax increase in the state's first school safety referendum.

In response to a continuous shortage of bus drivers, some Carmel elementary teachers will take on the role of bus driver this fall.

A suburban Indianapolis school district is signing up teachers to drive school buses before and after their usual time in the classroom.

The referendum aims to bring in an estimated $5 million a year for three years to fund school resource officers, teacher and staff training and mental health services for students.

School leaders say this new app will make students the eyes and ears on the ground.

Carmel Clay Schools is one of many school districts accepting free hand-held metal detectors from the state, but school and community leaders caution the detectors are not the sole solution to safer schools.