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The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus wants the state to push forward measures that will improve prescription drug costs, childrens health and jail overcrowding.

Gov. Eric Holcomb is largely expected to focus on his 2020 agenda, which he announced in December, during his State of the State address to a joint session of the General Assembly.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration announced Tuesday a new web-based map that shows the median income, population and much more in each area across the country.

An end to Indiana's experiment in the takeover of failing schools could happen Wednesday -- again. For the second time, the State Board of Education will vote on the future of four schools, one in Gary and three in Indianapolis.

IndyGo will overhaul its route system, apart from the new and planned rapid transit lines. The public has a chance to weigh in on this first major change in decades.

The graduation rate at Emmerich Manual High School plummeted to 57 percent last year, after a state audit found the school did not have the proper documentation for many of the students designated as leaving to home-school, according to new data obtained by Chalkbeat.

Indy Humane supplies food to more than 30 animal organizations in the city, and its Rescue Relief Program distributes hundreds of thousands of pounds of food to rescue organizations across the Midwest.

Supporters say it would give students who are not headed for four-year degree programs more opportunities to prepare for the types of technical jobs that will be available in the next five years.

Gov. Eric Holcomb proposed a new plan to free up state dollars for teacher pay in his State of the State address Tuesday. That plan could be implemented this year -- but Holcomb wants to wait for 2021.

The State Board of Education ended the takeover of Gary's Theodore Roosevelt College & Career Academy today without much discussion during its regular meeting. The intervention of the school was approved in 2011 due to years of chronic academic failure.