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Indiana hosts its first Celebrate Science Indiana festival.

Schools and non-profit groups that want to try or expand a creative or novel education program can now compete for funding from a new state Innovation Fund that is set to distribute $5 million over the next two years.

Indiana will act quickly to seek a waiver of controversial federal school accountability rules under new freedoms announced Friday by President Barack Obama.

More Indiana high school students took the SAT college entrance exam this year than ever before but the average scores dropped slightly in writing and math.

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett will deliver his second State of Education address at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Indiana History Center.

The Indiana Department of Education will have a new voucher program up and running in the coming weeks despite an attempt by the state’s largest teachers’ union to block its implementation.

The debate over No Child Left Behind divides education leaders and professionals at both the federal and state levels.

Thursday night, roughly 200 parents and community members gathered at a public hearing at Northwest High School to tell the State Board of Education what to do with the school if it fails to meet its adequate yearly progress report standard for the sixth year in a row.

More than 200 people gathered at Manual High School to voice concern about a possible state takeover of the school.

The head of a national teachers’ union told protesters who rallied outside the Statehouse on Thursday that Gov. Mitch Daniels’ education reform agenda would “destabilize” Indiana’s schools.

Emotions ran high Wednesday when a state Senate committee discussed a bill that would change the ways teachers are evaluated and licensed.

Indiana’s education chief says state lawmakers should do all they can to encourage school corporations to tie fiscal policy and education decisions together.

Tony Bennett and Nate Schnellenberger debate education reform during a radio forum.

Indiana legislators on Wednesday answered Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call to overhaul the state’s education system during committee meetings in both the House and Senate.

A bill that would give a state panel, municipal leaders and private universities the authority to green-light new charter schools was the subject of a four-hour hearing in an Indiana House committee on Wednesday.

Education officials are revamping teacher licensure that has the potential to affect Franklin College education majors.

The Indiana Senate is looking at strict education reform.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett's REPA reform is set to take effect this summer. The goal is to get more knowledgable teachers in public-school classrooms.

Vice president for academic affairs Dean Brailow said that, because Franklin is a liberal arts college and already provides a comprehensive education, the REPA proposals will not have as much of an effect on the campus.

Proposed changes for Indiana teacher licensing requirements could mean changes in college curriculum.

Newly sworn-in Tony Bennett says education will be improved even in tough economy.

Sixteen-year Indiana education chief Suellen Reed, a Republican, will not run for her fifth term. Seeking to replace her are Republican Tony Bennett, who is superintendent of Clark County schools, and Richard Wood, who holds the same job in Tippecanoe County.