Joe Donnelly

The site created by the Indiana Department of Education is intended to show how school performance goes beyond a single test score.

Former Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly will be heading to Rome as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

The board is in early stages of revising the state school accountability, or letter grade, system. Members received a draft framework to base future changes on at a meeting this month.

The Indiana State Board of Education aims to overhaul the A-F grades it gives schools to include new measures of how much students are learning and better reflect the states education priorities.

The State Board of Education held off on releasing letter grades after a significant drop in student test scores on the new ILEARN test last spring.

The Indiana Department of Education released 2019 federal school ratings Friday, while state letter grades remain on hold.

U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) cautioned about the nation's growing deficit and expressed frustration with what he calls "divisive rhetoric" in campaigns driven by untraceable contributions.

The state accountability system changed in 2016 to include a greater focus on student progress, and most schools received high marks on their growth measures this year.

Schools are getting letter grade ratings this year from both the state and federal government, and because of new education law, some schools will get two different ratings.

The former president told the crowd of about 7,000 that America is at a crossroads.