Articles tagged as: K-12
January 31, 2022
Coronavirus: No contact tracing for schools with mask mandates, state eclipses 20,000 dead
Some Indiana school districts no longer need to do contact tracing. The state’s COVID-19 cases have continued to slow as it reaches 1.6 million confirmed cases. And the state surpassed 20,000 dead, reporting its most recent 1,000 in just two weeks.
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2022
Parents can be silenced in special education settlements. A proposed bill would change that
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.
Read MoreJanuary 24, 2022
House committee approves ban on transgender athletes in girls school sports
Statewide restrictions would be placed on transgender girls' participation in school sports under a bill approved by a House committee on Monday.
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2022
Indiana lawmakers move forward with bill to share school referendum funds with charters
Indiana school districts would be required to share future referendum funding with charter schools under a bill approved by a House committee Thursday.
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2022
Indiana House committee changes, approves controversial school curriculum bill
House Bill 1134 increases parents' authority over school content and would limit how teachers talk about things like race, religion and politics in their classrooms.
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2022
Pike, Warren schools pivot to virtual learning as staffing shortages continue
Two of Marion County’s 11 school districts have switched to remote learning for at least part of this week due to staff illnesses.
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2022
House committee hears school content, transparency bill ahead of vote later this week
House lawmakers heard roughly five hours of testimony on their chamber's version of a school curriculum bill Monday.
Read MoreJanuary 7, 2022
Indiana lawmaker walks back remark on Nazism impartiality
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.
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2022
Indiana bill to limit conversations on race, politics in schools receives mixed opposition
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.
Read MoreDecember 20, 2021
Gun violence and threats are on the rise at Indiana schools
In Indiana, more than a quarter of all incidents involving guns at Indiana schools since 1970 occurred during that last two years, according to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database.
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