A raucous throng of protesters descended on the Indiana Statehouse today.
Angry labor union representatives still enraged by the right to work law?
Wednesday
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett filed a large contribution report (required for contributions over $1,000) last week showing a $10,000 campaign contribution from Robert L. Luddy of Raleigh, N.
Tuesday
Ask state education officials why Indiana lags most others in offering early childhood education and they will tell you it's a good thing, but we can't afford it at this time.
Tuesday
As a bill allowing the teaching of creationism moves from the Indiana Senate to House, this column in the Ball
Monday 4 comments
If you assumed the No Child Left Behind waiver request granted to Indiana by the Obama administration today had broad support from the state's education
February 9, 2012
Here's an interesting AP story about ISTA helping GOP gubernatorial hopeful Jim
February 8, 2012
Letter writer Michael Walter has an excellent take on the creationism bill kicking around the Indiana General Assembly.
February 7, 2012
Madonna's Super Bowl half-time show might not be the first place you would look for an Indiana school connection, but I had a suspicion while watching that I could find one there.
February 6, 2012
ALEC, corporate interests' tool for controlling state legislatures, turns its full attention to education this weekend with a conference on
February 3, 2012
Bad policy is spewing from the Indiana Statehouse so furiously that it's difficult to keep up.
February 2, 2012
Tony Bennett's on the road again – this time taking his message to Baton Rouge, for a
January 31, 2012
Today's editorial addresses Senate Bill 89, the GOP-controlled Indiana General Assembly's latest foray into intellectual backwaters.
January 30, 2012 1 comment
The school reform movement makes for some strange bedfellows but it also puts those bedfellows at odds, on occasion.
One of those is debate over the common core standards.
January 26, 2012
Imagine if a public school district announced it was opening a new school, not based on overcrowded classrooms or outdated facilities, but simply because it wanted to offer a school with a different theme.
January 25, 2012 2 comments
In a Sunday article, I looked at the frequent out-of-state trips Tony Bennett, superintendent of public instruction, has made since last spring to
January 23, 2012
A look at what's keeping the Indiana state superintendent on the road.
January 22, 2012
