Pat Mapes is making his plan for Hamilton Southeastern Schools clear. The district’s new superintendent said those who aren’t on board to “serve students” can leave his district.

Thousands of Indiana school children and teachers spent this last school year in a pilot program for artificial intelligence.

Enrollment in Indiana’s private-school voucher program surged to 70,095 students in 2023-24. That’s a 31 percent increase compared to the previous year — the largest ever jump in a single year.

Indiana superintendents say schools face an uphill battle to pass referendums. Two superintendents of schools that had referendums this year said its difficult to educate voters about how referendums will affect their property taxes.

Former state superintendent Jennifer McCormick, who was endorsed by the political action committee of the state’s largest teachers union last month, switched from the Republican party to the Democratic party following her term in 2021.

The next Indiana governor will appoint a secretary of education who operates the Department of Education and sits on the policy-making State Board of Education.

The Indiana State Teachers Association is demanding the state education department provide more and clear details of how educators are affected by the requirement.

A new national report on preschool access shows Indiana lags behind most other states.

Ivy Tech Community College will offer free classes for Indiana high schoolers this summer, the fourth year of a program that helps students earn free college credits.

As a public program, the Lab School is unique among the dozens of loosely defined microschools around Indiana, which are usually very small private schools.