The Indiana State Board of Education approved state funding cuts for some family and consumer science (FCS) classes starting next school year during a special meeting Friday.

At Pike High School in Indianapolis, nutrition teacher Kam Bontrager is guiding students through their last lab of the semester. The task for the day? Making smoothies.

A proposal from state workforce agencies would cut funding for classes that teach nutrition, personal finance, and other skills.

The Indiana State Board of Education voted unanimously on Wednesday to postpone a decision about whether to remove state funding for some life skills classes. The courses facing cuts teach adult skills like personal finance, nutrition, and child development.

The Department of Workforce Development is proposing a cut in state funding for several life-skills classes that teach things like basic nutrition and personal finance.

None of the parents of more than 400 Emma Donnan Elementary students attended a public meeting Monday evening organized by Indianapolis Public Schools about the southside school's future.

West Clark School Corporation was created during a push to shrink the states number of school districts in the 1960s, but the single district has been severely divided on education priorities.

House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis) has proposed combining the State Board of Education with the Commission for Higher Education and Governor's Workforce Cabinet.

Parents and others angrily called out the State Board of Education at its meeting today in Gary. They say despite the states intervention in local schools students face unsafe buildings, leaky roofs and even lack toilet paper at one school.

The State Board of Education approved the scores students need in order to reach proficiency on Indianas new standardized test at a meeting Thursday.