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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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:27 — 1.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Indiana Department of Education released last year’s ISTEP+ results, this afternoon. The Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress tests evaluate school districts based on Indiana student scores. ISTEP tests students in grades 3 through 8 and high school sophomores on their mathematics and language arts skills. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:30 — 22.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKassandra Botts talks about her volunteer work with the Shalom Community Center; The Indiana Department of Education released last year’s ISTEP+ results; The Indiana Recovery Alliance and the Shalom Community Center handed out Hepatitis A vaccinations; Hoosiers for A Common Sense Health Plan met with Indiana Attorney General Curtis; Indiana State …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28 — 1.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMiscalculation in enrollment is leaving a $9.3 million hole in state funding for public schools. The Indiana Department of Education’s annual student headcount shows some 6000 more students enrolled in public schools than lawmakers had budgeted for. According to state statute, in the event tuition support exceeds …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:03 — 19.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMiscalculation in enrollment is leaving a $9.3 million hole in state funding for public schools; The Lawrence County Sheriff is looking for a suspect who allegedly held a woman at gunpoint and attempted to tie her up; The US Post Office is extending hours of operation for …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:47 — 27.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhite-tailed deer at the Griffy Lake Nature Preserve are close to destroying the preserve to the point it may never recover. With a new school year on the horizon and international students from all over the world pouring into IU’s Bloomington campus, scammers are on the lookout …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:11 — 24.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFollowing major electoral victories for marijuana legalization around the country, police in the Bloomington area have made two large weed-related busts; The Indiana Department of Education released their A through F school grades for 2016 today; The Monroe County Public Library is working to keep its wages and …

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 …