The Hou­se Education Committee took a first look at a bill that calls for a re-score of the 2015 ISTEP+ assessment Tuesday. HB 1395, among other things, calls for an outside group to rescore last year's test.

A House road funding proposal cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday, but the GOP plan was not embraced by all Republicans on the House Roads Committee.

A Senate committee approved its version of big box assessment legislation Tuesday. A House committee will consider its own bill later this week.

Local government leaders praise the House Republican road funding plan, applauding the potential influx of money to their communities. But taxpayers advocates aren't happy with the source of that new money.

Indiana lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved bills giving teachers and schools a one-year reprieve from being punished for poor student performance on ISTEP exams.

The House GOP road funding plan includes a move Bosma says is long overdue - automatic increases in the state's fuel taxes tied to increases in the consumer price index and highway construction costs.

House Republicans announced Tuesday that Rep. Jud McMillin of Brookville was resigning from the Legislature.