Shaina Cavazos - Chalkbeat Indiana
Shaina Cavazos covers state policy for Chalkbeat Indiana, including the Indiana State Board of Education, the state legislature, academic standards, testing, teaching and other issues.
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
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Indianapolis Lighthouse East will close in June due to dwindling enrollment, low test scores, and high teacher and principal turnover.
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The Indiana Charter School Board voted Tuesday not to renew the charter for the Indianapolis Academy of Excellence, a small school it oversees on the citys northeast side.
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Indiana House Republicans want to cut more than $105 million from state funds earmarked for students from low-income families.
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Vocal critics of the Indianapolis Public Schools administration looked poised to unseat two incumbents in Tuesday's school board election -- but election results are not final yet.
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The Indiana Agriculture and Technology School will have a physical outpost on a farm in southern Indiana.
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Indiana's scores on the "nation's report card" haven't changed much since students took the federal math and reading tests two years ago, but eighth-graders' scores did jump slightly in reading.
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Nearly two decades after charter schools started operating in Indiana, officials have released the first state-mandated report on what they look like and how they're doing.
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LaTonya Kirkland and her friends were trailblazers -- part of the first year of an experiment that saw thousands of kids bused from struggling Indianapolis neighborhoods to more affluent sections of Marion County for school. The buses -- paid for by the state and Indianapolis Public Schools -- rolled from 1981 until last month, when the court order mandating the busing expired. Now, 35 years later, it's not clear what the program achieved.
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Indianapolis Public School leaders respond to a series on school segregation, "Divided Schools," by Chalkbeat Indiana, The Indy Star and WFYI.
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Yorktown school Superintendent Jennifer McCormick today was named the Republican choice to challenge incumbent Democrat Glenda Ritz in the November election for state superintendent at Indiana's GOP convention in Indianapolis.