K-12

The state wants Indiana schools to be more transparent when it comes to school performance. In the next month, accountability and performance report cards will be published online for all public and state-accredited non-public schools.

The state Legislature capped weeks of negotiations Wednesday with the adoption of an $81.7 billion state budget. It now goes to Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

A state House committee has taken a step toward repealing the law that says local schools cannot start classes before Labor Day. The 2006 law was adopted to help the state’s tourism industry. It says schools have to get a waiver from the state to start classes before the final summer holiday, and most districts now do that.

Michigan's K-12 schools could add gambling risk education to what it already teaches about risk related to drugs and alcohol.

Tens of thousands more students will be eligible for taxpayer dollars to help fund their private school education under the final version of the new state budget.

Undocumented and underdocumented high school graduates without legal resident status would qualify for the same tuition rate as their classmates under a proposed legislation

School choice in Indiana could be remade if proposed legislation gains traction. Senate Bill 305 would provide more funding with less eligibility restrictions than allowed under the popular private school voucher program.

Indiana Senate Democrats want the legislature this year to focus on issues they say have been ignored for too long by Republicans.

This site was created by the Indiana Department of Education is intended to show how school performance goes beyond a single test score.

Advocates fear a new wave of conservative-led attacks on sex education could have a chilling effect on the availability and quality of the information students receive.