Indiana lawmakers are about halfway through this year's legislative session, after key deadlines came and went earlier this week.

A WFYI investigation found that schools often pressure parents into signing nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, as a condition of a special education settlement. Advocates say NDAs prevent parents from talking to other parents of children with disabilities about their experience. And it leaves parents in fear that a school district may take legal action against them for a perceived violation of the clause.

Statewide restrictions would be placed on transgender girls' participation in school sports under a bill approved by a House committee on Monday.

Advocates representing Black Hoosiers, teachers and other education groups called for lawmakers to vote no on a controversial school curriculum bill Wednesday, as they gathered in the statehouse to further condemn legislation many of them say is racist and divisive.

House lawmakers heard roughly five hours of testimony on their chamber's version of a school curriculum bill Monday.

Republican Sen. Scott Baldwin said he should have chosen better words when he said during a committee hearing that a bill he filed would require teachers to be impartial in all of their teaching, including during lessons about Nazism, Marxism and fascism.

Lawmakers in the Senate education committee endured nearly eight hours of testimony and debate Wednesday on a controversial bill focused on school curriculum and content. Many people opposed some or all of the bill, but for very different reasons.

The Indiana Senate Education and Career Development Committee took its first steps to fast-track a virtual funding fix and heard hours of testimony on legislation about curriculum and classroom transparency for schools.

Gov. Eric Holcomb will push lawmakers to reduce the tax burden on Indiana businesses in the upcoming legislative session.

The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based charter advocacy group, hopes the legislature will change the state's school bus law next year, highlighting in a new report how the requirement creates a costly burden for charter schools in particular.