The proposals would require special-needs students to take more math courses and meet a number of new requirements.

A combination of factors are contributing to Arlington Community High School's unsettled school atmosphere as students skip class, act out and some are even suspected of stealing a teacher's car. The school administration has asked IPS to provide more than 20 additional staff to help.

The Indiana Department of Education is reviewing whether A-F performance grades to schools could be canceled this year because regulations on setting those grades have expired.

After three years under management of a private company, Arlington Community High School has returned to Indianapolis Public Schools. It's the first school under state intervention to transition back to its home district and school leaders are under pressure from the community and state to make it work. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle will spend a year reporting from inside the school on it successes and challenges. In this first part of the series, A New Day, he looks at just how difficult it can be to start over at a school.

Indiana has not yet seen an end to this year's ISTEP+ testing saga or the state's controversial relationship with testing company CTB-McGraw Hill. CTB officials informed State Superintendent Glenda Ritz there is an issue with a batch of new technology-enhanced test questions included on the statewide ISTEP+ test for the first time this spring, which will lead to a delay in the release of those test scores.

Standardized test scores for Indiana students will be delayed more than a month because the company hired to run the exam has hit a roadblock in grading a portion of the exam.

Company officials said that the problem stems from new, technology enhanced questions that allow students to type in their answer to any given test item.

Indiana's new A-to-F school letter grade model was given final approval today for use during the 2015-16 school year.

Indiana has an early answer to a heated two-year-old debate about whether it needed a special teaching permit for teachers changing careers to get them into the classroom more quickly.