BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A new report showing that Indiana females in grades nine through 12 have the nation’s second-highest rate of forced sex is spurring calls for more education and prevention efforts.
A national analysis of sexual violence co…

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A new report showing that Indiana females in grades nine through 12 have the nation’s second-highest rate of forced sex is spurring calls for more education and prevention efforts.
A national analysis of sexual violence co…

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when the Indiana teenager turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple times, apparently to demonstrate to his followers that the expletive would fit almost anywhere…

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Two teenage girls were arrested in Florida and charged with cyberstalking after creating a fake Facebook page impersonating another student and using it to bully her. Students at an Indianapolis high school set up false Twitter accounts for their pr…

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — New rules proposed by the Indiana Board of Education that could greatly expand the number of public schools subject to state takeover have been shelved until state legislators can examine them more closely.
More than 100 school…

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Published Online: March 16, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A cash-strapped Indiana school district that angered parents by turning its buses over to a nonprofit company that began charging for children to ride will likely end that practice soon.
Frank…

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Published Online: March 16, 2012

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Third-graders throughout Indiana will take a new, high-stakes reading test next week that promises potentially serious consequences if they don’t pass.
Students who fail the assessment

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Third-graders throughout Indiana will take a new, high-stakes reading test next week that promises potentially serious consequences if they don’t pass.
Students who fail the assessment — called IREAD-3 — will be retain…

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A cash-strapped Indiana school district that angered parents by turning its buses over to a nonprofit company that began charging for children to ride will likely end that practice soon.
Franklin Township Schools’ pay-to-ride s…

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SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (AP) — The first big shipment of donated school supplies has arrived in southern Indiana to help furnish temporary classrooms where students whose schools were damaged by a tornado will finish the school year.
Pallets stacked with…

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