One theme of Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick’s agenda for next year is accountability.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick entered office in 2017, after years of turmoil between education policy makers and agencies.

Each year the state reviews schools with at least two years of failing letter grades, to look at different aspects of a school’s operations and figure out how they can improve.

The five-year grant for the Indiana Department of Education was awarded through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration program called Project AWARE.

The goal is to build up community-based services and programming to support students’ wellbeing.

The Indiana Department of Education says results for the state’s standardized test, the ISTEP, are delayed due to issues the exam’s vendor reported as it finalized the data.

Indiana’s charter and public schools reported around 3,614 bullying incidents during the 2015-16 school year, and during the 2017-18 school year, those numbers jumped to 5,604. So, are kids getting meaner?

Some high school students in Loogootee will have to retake part of the ISTEP this fall. The state invalidated their scores earlier this year after a potential leak of test questions.

The Indiana Department of Education recently released standards for the new ethnic studies course. Lawmakers approved a bill last year requiring the change.

The Indiana Department of Education found the North Lawrence Career Center violated several rules while using federal and state money.