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In the State of the District Address on Sept. 20, Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Aleesia Johnson gave an update on the Rebuilding Stronger Plan that had previously faced criticism from educators and families.

The Florida Board of Education has recently given its approval for new standards aimed at teaching Black history in public schools. However, the decision...

RISE INDY’S new Freedom Readers Champion program is tackling literacy rates head-on. The local nonprofit hosted the second of three swag bag pickups for its...

BY ERIC WEDDLE Participation in Indiana’s taxpayer-funded private school voucher program jumped to the highest level since its start over a decade ago – even...

Retired educator, Aaron Fernander, would often quote to us in staff meetings, “Teach the children!” He didn’t want us focused on anything other than...

Have you ever been put in a box? Society does it often, especially regarding Black males from particular communities. Additionally, Black men get put...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's governor has signed a bill that would require schools to notify a parent if a student requests a name or pronoun change at school. The bill is one of the final bills approved in a legislative session that had targeted LGBTQ+ people, especially students. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb's approval of the legislation on Thursday comes in a year when Republican-led legislatures around the country are seeking to curb LGBTQ+ rights, specifically targeting transgender people's participation in sports, workplaces and schools, as well as their access to health care. Holcomb also signed into law a bill that could make it easier to ban books from public school libraries.

Troy Knoderer, chief academic officer for the Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Lawrence Township, hopes the delta variant of COVID-19 won’t force students back...

Students in a second grade classroom at a local summer learning program spent a recent morning working on cards to give people who have...

Osman Couey is a New York City teacher who allegedly threw Ka’Veon Wilson, a 7-year-old special-needs student, across a hallway at Harlem’s Public School...