Dylan Peers McCoy
Chalkbeat Indiana
Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Why Indiana schools compete with McDonald’s for staff to teach students in special ed.
A competitive labor market and the pandemic have made it difficult for school administrators to attract teaching aides, who play a crucial role in schools. → Read More
Ivy Tech spent years trying to improve rock bottom graduation rates — and it’s working
Ivy Tech, which serves about 74,000 students across the state, has made steady gains in completion rates. → Read More
Children’s mental health suffers as staffing shortages ravage care centers – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville
In Indiana, youth treatment facilities have been forced to drastically cut the number of beds and services they offer because of staff shortages. → Read More
Indiana schools got $3B for COVID relief. Why don’t we know how they will spend it?
Months after the stimulus began flowing, public information on how local districts are spending it is inconsistent and often hard to find. → Read More
Who’s running new virtual schools in Indiana? Lawmakers want to know.
Indiana would have no authority to reject a virtual school or operator, under a bill pushed by Republican legislators → Read More
Indiana poised to open school vouchers to families earning over $100,000
The Indiana House and Senate propose school vouchers for families earning over $100,000 → Read More
New Indiana budget proposal scales back private school voucher expansion
Indiana Senate Republicans significantly scaled back an expansion of the state’s private school voucher program under their budget proposal Thursday. → Read More
Cash-strapped Indiana schools are getting a surge of federal coronavirus stimulus
Indiana schools will get more than $3 billion in federal coronavirus aid. But the money cannot provide a long-term fix for a district with spending deficits. → Read More
At these Indianapolis schools, nurses help catch academic problems
An Indianapolis nonprofit is working with schools to use health data from nurses to help identify students who are likely to fall behind academically. → Read More
How Indiana schools are preparing to give ILEARN during a pandemic
Indiana is likely to suspend consequences for schools that don’t perform well on tests, but many districts have pushed the state to cancel ILEARN this year. → Read More
Indiana lawmakers shield schools from funding loss due to virtual learning in the pandemic
To prevent Indiana schools from losing money during the pandemic, the state will fund students who attend remotely as though they were attending in person. → Read More
How the politics behind rural internet access leave parts of Indiana ‘in the dark ages’
The disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak has jolted new urgency into the promise of internet connectivity in parts of rural Indiana. → Read More
Thousands of Indianapolis students don’t have internet. An ambitious plan could help.
About 150,000 Indiana children don’t have internet. Many are missing out on remote school. → Read More
Thousands of Indianapolis students don’t have internet. An ambitious plan could help.
Indianapolis community leaders are looking at creating a citywide internet network for students. → Read More
IPS parents are resisting restart at their school. Will the district listen?
Cordova loves the staff at the Westside campus, which educates about 600 students, so overnight, she became an activist. → Read More
What’s an IPS innovation school? Here’s your cheat sheet
Indianapolis Public Schools is already growing its roster of so-called innovation schools for next school year. → Read More
As Indianapolis districts boost teacher pay, charters say they are struggling to compete
Central Indiana schools have found themselves competing for teachers and it's driving up pay. → Read More
How shifting political tides ended Indiana’s ambitious school takeover effort
Nine years and $33 million in extra federal funding after the state took over 5 schools, the State Board of Education ended takeover with little fanfare last week. → Read More
IPS regains control of 3 schools in a dramatic end to state takeover
The takeover schools have had mixed performance under the Florida-based charter network’s management. → Read More
Database: Find out how many home-schoolers were left out of Indiana’s 2019 graduation rates
Those students were wiped off the books because they were labeled as leaving to home-school — a designation that helps boost graduation rates for high schools. → Read More