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Second-graders at Cumberland Elementary School in West Lafayette recently learned that Indiana doesn't have any state insect. That sobering news prompted them to write postcards to their legislators urging them to support giving state insect status to the illuminating insect.

Indiana tax collections surged in April after struggling through much of the last year. The state sits comfortably ahead of projections heading into the last two months of the fiscal calendar.

The approved rule now goes to the Attorney General for technical approval, the governor for signature, and the state's Legislative Services Agency to be finalized and published.

Under the previous A-F model, grades were based mainly on student performance on state standardized test. The new system dramatically changes that, calculating school grades based on equal parts test performance and student growth on those tests.

The State Board of Education -- one of the state's most scrutinized public agencies -- will soon face a new requirement that will increase its transparency and other agencies could see similar changes next year.

Tuesday's NPR program "On Point" featured WFYI's Jake Harper, who has been extensively covering the HIV outbreak, and Beth Meyerson, professor in the Indiana University School of Public Health and co-director at the Rural Center for AIDS / STD Prevention.

State education leaders have been crafting a new school accountability system over the past two-and-a-half years, and today, the State Board of Education approved a final framework.

Former First Lady Laura Bush will be among the speakers coming to Indianapolis as part of Butler University's Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series.

Gov. Mike Pence made it official today: the Indiana State Board of Education is getting an overhaul. Pence announced he has signed Senate Bill 1, which passed over the objections of state Superintendent Glenda Ritz, Democrats and her other supporters.

David Fanning has been the executive producer of Frontline since its beginning in 1983. During a recent visit to Indianapolis to speak at the Economic Club of Indiana, Fanning sat down with WFYI's Michelle Johnson to talk about the program's impact and its future.