A new program offers IUPUI scholarships for teens of color interested in STEM academics, including car racing.

About 70 percent of Indiana schools had lower attendance rates in 2020-21 compared to the previous year, a sign of the toll that the fragmented education during the pandemic took on students.

IPS provided results of the panorama survey, which focuses on three groups – students in grades 3-12, staff and families – during their last school board meeting. The district has conducted the initiative for the past three years to measure how the district is responding to topics such as school climate, faculty growth mindset and school belonging.

Communities across the state are weighing what COVID-19 health and safety measures to continue this summer and into the fall, as the governor's mask requirement for schools expires at the end of June.

The total number of Individualized Education Program evaluations completed in the 2019-20 school year — just more than 25,000 — dropped by about 16% compared to the 2018-19 school year, when nearly 30,000 evaluations were completed. The total number of evaluations initiated also dropped by about 13% over that period.

Lack of exposure to education, training, and competitive job opportunities are main factors behind the low numbers of African-Americans in the technology industry. InnoPower, Rooted School, The Indianapolis Recorder, and Eleven Fifty Academy hope to change that with a new partnership created to widen the door for more diversity.