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The top 10 finalists for the 2023 Indiana Teacher of the Year include two Michiana teachers — one at South Bend Community School Corporation and the other at Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation.
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According to Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 5.8% of third graders were eligible to be retained based on their spring reading test scores.
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Whitmer said the state needs to build on the momentum of the record education budget she just signed, and provide relief to families and teachers hurt by inflation.
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When schools don’t have enough special education teaching assistants, it’s a problem for the whole system.
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COVID-era universal school lunches — where all kids were given free meals regardless of income, feeding an additional 10 million students nationwide — has ended.
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Nearly 82 percent of Indiana’s third graders passed the required reading exam in 2022 -- a tiny improvement for students but below the rate before the pandemic.
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Indiana students had slight gains on the 2022 ILEARN, but students haven’t caught up from the pandemic.
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Indiana schools have an urgent need for teachers and support staff. There are thousands of open positions, but a lack of qualified candidates to fill them.
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A new Indiana training program will prepare current educators for permits in mild or intense intervention as the state faces a shortage of special education teachers.
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UPDATE: The five-day seminar has been cancelled, WVPE learned via email, because too few teachers signed up to participate.