The contracts, which totaled $573,000, weren't put up for a competitive process.

Hill will face retired Lake County Circuit Court Judge Lorenzo Arrendondo, a Democrat, in the general election.

Yorktown school Superintendent Jennifer McCormick today was named the Republican choice to challenge incumbent Democrat Glenda Ritz in the November election for state superintendent at Indiana's GOP convention in Indianapolis.

Delegates to the upcoming Indiana Republican convention will be choosing between a school district administrator and a tea party-backed college instructor to become their candidate for state schools superintendent.

Yorktown Community Schools Superintendent Jennifer McCormick has entered the 2016 state superintendent's race on the Republican side. She says Glenda Ritz's education department is disorganized and disconnected from schools.