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.

Two Carmel elementary school buildings will be closed in the coming years and replaced with new buildings.

Carmel Clay Schools Board picked Michael Beresford, an administrator at a nearby Hamilton County school corporation, to be the district's next superintendent.

The Indiana Public Access Counselor says Carmel Clay Schools should have explained why it placed its superintendent and another senior staffer on a three-month paid-leave last year that ended in their resignations.

Carmel Schools Superintendent Nicholas Wahl was placed on administrative leave Monday by the Carmel Clay Schools Board.

Thomas Harmas was hired as the new principal of the state's largest high school by the Carmel Clay School Board Monday night.