The Indiana State Board of Education continued discussion Wednesday of proposals for a new framework for school accountability.
State lawmakers say they will act quickly at the start of the 2021 session to ensure schools receive full funding for students participating in virtual learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Indiana School Boards Association is calling on lawmakers to maintain funding for public schools in the 2021 legislative session.
The Indiana Bar Foundation is sharing the results of a yearlong study assessing Hoosier students’ engagement with civic education.
Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced his selection for Indiana's first appointed secretary of education to succeed current Superintendent for Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick.
The Indiana State Teachers Association is calling for improved working conditions, a commitment to increase teacher pay, and protections for funding heading into the coming legislative session.
Sustained education funding, inclusivity and bridging the digital divide top the state superintendent's priorities shared with legislators for the 2021 session.
In the state's 2019 fiscal year, 2,489 of Hoosier children were adopted through the Indiana Department of Child Services.
Northwest Indiana educators say they'll fight back against attempts to decrease funding 15% for virtual learners.
Indiana Democrats have sent a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb asking the state to hold schools harmless from changes in enrollment during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Eric Holcomb signed 167 new state laws approved by the Republican-controlled Indiana House and Senate during the 2020 legislative session, which ran between Jan. 6 and March 11.
Selected Governor's Fellows will serve in Indiana agencies in a yearlong, full-time, paid position.
Public educators continued calls for increased accountability, teacher pay in a Presidents Day rally at the Indiana Statehouse.
The State Board of Education approved cuts to 5 foundational life skills classes to shift funding toward more advanced courses.
Read through the obituaries published today in The Times.
Purdue Northwest is hosting an online seminar featuring over a dozen speakers with different expertise related to various social issues.
Licensed cosmetologist Kristine Johnson has brought a new service to Northwest Indiana to help women suffering from balding or thinning hair.
Gas prices fell last week with Indiana posting one of the nation's largest weekly drops, ending a five-week run of increases after crude oil prices plunged.
Two pilots have walked away with minor injuries after a Boeing 737 jet converted for firefighting crashed in Australia. The twin-engine tanker crashed in Fitzgerald River National Park in southern Western Australia state while fighting wildfires late Monday. An Emergency Services official says it was miraculous that both pilots received only minor injuries even though the plane became engulfed in flames and smoke upon impact. The pilots are believed to be Canadian citizens. They were released from a hospital on Tuesday. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the crash was the first serious accident involving a Boeing 737 in Australia.
State representatives voted 97-0 Monday to conduct an inventory of all farmland lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2022, and to identify the primary cause of the reduction.
Crews in Ohio have released toxic chemicals from five cars of a derailed train near the Pennsylvania state line to reduce the threat of an explosion. Flames and black smoke billowed high into the sky from the derailment site. Norfolk Southern Railway confirmed Monday evening that the cars were draining and that burning was underway as planned. Authorities were monitoring the air quality to make sure that toxic fumes weren't spreading. Ohio's governor earlier ordered residents near the site to evacuate because of the risk of death or serious injury. Officials believe most have left. Pennsylvania's governor said residents of that state near the derailment site also had left but he urged people within a 2-mile radius to keep their doors and windows closed as a precaution.
Larry Boston, 21, was sentenced to 73 years in prison for fatally shooting 20-year-old Charles Golden on July 8, 2020, while they were riding in a vehicle in Gary.
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Here are recent bookings into the LaPorte County Jail.
Larry Boston, 21, was sentenced to 73 years in prison for fatally shooting 20-year-old Charles Golden on July 8, 2020, while they were riding in a vehicle in Gary.
Police apprehended a Lake Station woman charged with nine felony and two misdemeanor counts stemming from a crash that resulted from alleged impaired driving and killed her infant daughter on Christmas Day.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Natalie Bakota imposed a five-year sentence Friday.
State representatives voted 97-0 Monday to conduct an inventory of all farmland lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2022, and to identify the primary cause of the reduction.
Larry Boston, 21, was sentenced to 73 years in prison for fatally shooting 20-year-old Charles Golden on July 8, 2020, while they were riding in a vehicle in Gary.
It appears increasingly likely that speed enforcement cameras will be deployed on Indiana highways in the not-too-distant future.
Martinez is accused of failing to stop while driving an unmarked Jeep TrackHawk at 96 mph in a 45-mph zone in what police described as a "completely reckless" manner.