Indiana Schools

Middle School Girls Expelled Over Facebook Jokes 'To Kill' Peers

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.26.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they w...

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Questions Abound As Districts Shift To Merit Pay For Teachers

| Scott Elliott and Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 04.11.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. If your child's teacher seems a little bit on edge this year, it might not be your imagina...

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Student Expelled For Profane Tweet Thrust Into Free-Speech Debate

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.03.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when the Indiana teenager turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple t...

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High School Senior Expelled For Tweeting Profanity

Posted 03.25.2012

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An Indiana high school senior has been expelled for a Tweet he says was posted from home on his personal account. "One of my tweets was, f--- is on...

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Indiana To Overhaul Certification Exam For Principals

| Sarah Butrymowicz and Scott Elliott | Posted 03.19.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana is poised to dramatically overhaul the way it determines whether e...

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For One Indiana School, Standardized Testing Is A Literary Genre

Posted 05.13.2012

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On the lesson plan for one Indiana school's students: historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction and ... standardized testing. In his January State of ...

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Indiana Tornado Outbreak Hit Schools At Worst Possible Time

AP | JASON KEYSER and TOM COYNE | Posted 05.06.2012

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HENRYVILLE, Ind. — The tornado came at the worst possible time for the hundreds of students loaded on school buses, ready to head home in Henryv...

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Does The Largest School Choice Program Illegally Use Public Money To Support Religion?

AP | By CHARLES WILSON | Posted 03.15.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- A judge upheld Indiana's school voucher law on Friday, rejecting opponents' arguments that the largest such program in the nation unco...

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How Not Showing Up In The Classroom May Be Required For Graduation

Posted 11.13.2011

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Indiana's superintendent of public instruction is suggesting one more high school graduation requirement, one that means kids won't be showing up in t...

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Who Should Run Indianapolis Schools?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.29.2011

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Today, Indiana’s Board of Education is expected to rubber-stamp a contentious plan for the state to take over three high schools and one middle scho...

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Indiana Vouchers Prompt Thousands To Go Private As Public Schools Plead For Students To Stay

AP | By TOM COYNE | Posted 10.28.2011

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to priv...

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Judge Denies Request To Block Indiana Voucher Program

AP | By KEN KUSMER | Posted 10.16.2011

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INDIANAPOLIS -- A judge Monday declined to halt Indiana's broad new school voucher program, saying the law was "religion-neutral" and likely to be uph...

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Michael Phelps, Indiana Teen, Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For School Shooting

AP | RICK CALLAHAN | Posted 10.12.2011

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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A central Indiana teenager convicted of shooting a former middle school classmate was sentenced to 30 years in prison Frida...

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School Punishing Girls Over Racy MySpace Photos A Constitutional Violation?

AP | Posted 10.12.2011

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An Indiana school district violated the First Amendment rights of two teenage girls who were punished for posting sexually suggest...

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Why Some Voucher Students Could Be Forced Out Of Schools Midsemester

AP | By CHARLES WILSON | Posted 10.11.2011

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Students who have signed up for Indiana's broad new school voucher program could be jerked out of private schools midsemester or force...

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When Kids Cut Class, Could Mom And Dad Go To Jail?

Posted 10.04.2011

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When students skip class, parents could be the ones punished -- as criminals. A new program in Marion County, Ind., which comprises 11 school distr...

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Yet Another State Stops Teaching Cursive In Schools

Posted 10.01.2011

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Hawaii is joining several states across the country that are dropping cursive writing from mandatory school curriculum. The Aloha state has adopted...

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Michael Phelps, Indiana Teen, Found Guilty In School Shooting

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 09.10.2011

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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A central Indiana teenager who insisted for weeks that he hadn't intended to kill a former classmate admitted in court Mond...

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Scratch That: Schools Required To Teach Keyboarding, No More Cursive [POLL]

Posted 09.06.2011

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Is the keyboard completely replacing the pen? Indiana school officials have announced that students will no longer be required to learn cursive wri...

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