The WFYI Education Desk is committed to special education coverage. As part of our reporting, we want to highlight and explain common challenges families face as they navigate the special education system in Indiana. Here's a digital map that follows the often complicated and confusing process that three Indiana families of students with disabilities went through.

State lawmakers approved $150 million for the Student Learning Recovery Grant Program earlier this year, with the goal to fund out-of-school programs helping students make up for lost learning time during the pandemic – the 2021-22 school year is the third one disrupted by COVID-19.

Indiana education officials took the next step to revamp school accountability this week.

Providing all Marion County students with equitable access to education has been a challenge for years, and a new report finds that Black and Hispanic students lack access to high-quality education — from birth through higher education — at disproportionate rates.

Indiana saw an explosive number of COVID-19 cases reported in schools as many kicked off the new academic year without requiring masks. But since a peak around Labor Day, Hoosier schools have reported fewer new cases each week.

The Indiana State Board of Education is in the process of developing a new school performance data dashboard, after lawmakers approved legislation to create it earlier this year.

Anderson Community Schools in Madison County has entire classrooms of children out for quarantine just one week into the new school year, and is one of multiple districts across the state already grappling with COVID-19 cases forcing kids out of classrooms.

Summer is officially over for students in the Indianapolis Public Schools district. IPS students started their first day of school Monday during their third year since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

State health officials say they're not mandating masks in K-12 schools amid a surge of COVID-19 in part because local officials told them they want to make those decisions.

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