Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 26th, 2020. Later in the program, The League of Women Voters begins a podcast on the WFHB Local News titled “Issues and Civics.” In today’s segment, host Jim Allison talks to Josephine McCormick, IU Pace Student and Big …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:49 — 46.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 29th, 2020. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Nicholas DiBrita covers the Joseph Smedley story. DiBrita talked to Andrea Sterling, a graduate student at Indiana University. Also coming up in the next half hour, Sydney Foreman talked to …
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Indiana schools have a new standardized test called ILEARN, which has replaced the ISTEP. Based on student test results, Indiana officials award a letter grade to each school, and the grades are linked to teacher evaluations and teacher pay. But scores on the ILEARN were so low that Monroe County School Superintendent Judi DeMuth exempted educators from the negative impact …
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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. …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:29 — 17.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSnow accumulation closed several schools across the region; PHH Mortgage will pay the state of Indiana millions of dollars in a negotiated settlement; An Indianapolis man died over the weekend in a ice-fishing accident in Morgan County; Officials with IU Health and the city of Bloomington will …
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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 …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:57 — 22.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington Police say they are investigating four recent break-ins they believe are related, two of which involved attempted sexual assault; The Bloomington City Council gave its unanimous support last night to the Monroe County School Corporation funding referendum; the Bloomington Farmers Market this weekend will no longer …
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