Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:46 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStarting as early as 2021, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction will no longer be elected by Hoosier voters. The Republican-controlled State Senate voted 29-19 yesterday, to eliminate the elected position and make the state’s highest educator an appointed Secretary of Education. House Bill 1005 was …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:42 — 494.2KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana’s highest ranking education official will not seek re-election. Superintendent Jennifer McCormick announced she will not run in 2020, today. McCormick, a Republican, is in her first term as superintendent, after ousting Democratic predecessor Glenda Ritz, in 2016. McCormick has at times been at odds with Republican …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:22 — 6.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz released a video September 18th, the first in a three part series titled State of the Classroom. The first video focuses on students in the classroom, including the environments and external factors that impact student success.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:07 — 33.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | More2013 was a volatile year for education in Indiana. Education leaders made national headlines with their highly visible dysfunction and disputes, most stemming from a rocky relationship between newly-elected State Board of Education Superintendent Glenda Ritz and the Indiana Department of Education. CREDITS The Best of 2013 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week Indiana State Superintendent Glenda Ritz announced she is suing all ten members of the Indiana State Board of Education for allegedly violating Indiana’s ‘Open Door’ law. “She specifically believes that it was done without a notice to the public or the superintentendent, who is obviously not just a …
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