The statewide community college system, which educates more than 66,000 full- and part-time students, will close the office March 12, according to emails to staff and students sent Monday.

School administrators could be required to earn new literacy endorsements under a measure that advanced in the House Wednesday. In addition to expanding literacy endorsement requirements, the bill also carves out exceptions in the state’s reading retention law for some English language learners.

School board candidates would be forced to have a partisan label on the general election ballot under legislation approved by a House committee Wednesday.

House Bill 1285 still includes a requirement that every Indiana school building has a staff member available to de-escalate behavior in situations where students may be secluded, restrained or put in timeout.

IPS Superintendent Aleesia Johnson said the proposed revenue shift in Senate Bill 518 could force the district to close at least 20 schools.

The Indiana Senate advanced SB 442 Tuesday. It would require school boards or charter authorizers to approve all instruction materials related to human sexuality and post those materials to the school’s website by July 1.

Indiana school board races would become partisan under a bill advanced by a Senate committee Monday — stoking fears of politicizing school board elections.

The sharp IPS enrollment decline follows a districtwide academic overhaul and comes amid a political battle at the Statehouse.

With a new campus coming, students are finding a temporary home on the far east side.

SB 523 says chaplains who work in schools would provide secular support and advice to staff and students. It specifies that they could only provide religious or spiritual guidance to minors with explicit parental permission.