The statewide ILEARN test will look different over the next few years as the Indiana Department of Education works to redesign the test. The IDOE says the redesign will improve the tests quality and usefulness to educators by including three new checkpoints, flexible scheduling, and a shortened final assessment at the end of the year.

In English language arts, 40.7 percent of students passed the exam, a dip of 0.5 percentage points.

A new partnership between the Indiana Department of Education and Education Service Centers of Indiana aims to license more educators to teach STEM subjects. Eligible teachers could receive free tuition, free books, and $1,000 stipends from the initiative.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last Thursday, ending race-conscious admissions practices at colleges and universities that accept federal money.

Indiana universities like IU Bloomington, Purdue, and Notre Dame did use race-conscious admissions.

Educators and schools in Indiana have new ways to connect over job postings on the states educator supply and demand marketplace. The marketplaces new educator profiles will make hunting for jobs and filling education positions a two-way street for schools and teachers.

For years, a small district of 1,100 students just east of Indianapolis aimed to ditch the fees that had created barriers for students and burdens for their families.

Members of the Fayette County Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to bring district policy in line with new state restrictions that limit classroom speech about gender and sexuality and bathroom access for transgender students.

Indianas teachers are much more white than the students they teach about 92 percent compared to around 65 percent, according to the Indiana Department of Education. The state struggles to recruit and retain educators of color.

Indiana borrowers react to Supreme Court decision striking down Biden student loan forgiveness.

The Whitley County library took down the display last year after a complaint. Not this time.