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School boards push back against Indiana voucher expansions CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America March 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Local school leaders across Indiana are lining up against a Republican-backed school funding plan over concerns it wold give private schools a big financial boost at the detriment of traditional public schools. Projected to cost $144 million, the voucher expansion and a new program allowing parents to directly spend state money on...

A bipartisan bill aimed at increasing police accountability and enacting criminal justice reform advanced with unanimous support from a key Indiana Senate committee Tuesday.

The national rush to vaccinate teachers in hopes of soon reopening pandemic-shuttered...

The second missed game of the season for Doncic is Dallas’ last before the All-Star Game on Sunday in Atlanta, and he is expected to participate.

Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic sat out a victory over Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, sidelined by lower back tightness that coach Rick Carlisle says shouldnt cost him his second All-Star appearance this weekend

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Chris Marquart is our resident local Motorsports analyst and is host of Crash Course, The Final Round and The 31st Lap podcasts on FingerLakes1.com. Casey Smith joins us to talk about the upcoming SMW Expo, planned for April 9-10, and then we catch up with Mark Elliott to touch on some Unified Point Series developments. Share: 2 hours ago The Seneca Falls Police Department reports that a missing person was found deceased near Cowing St. on Sunday, April 4 ... MORE 2 hours...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scrambl

On Wednesday evening, the University of Georgia Student Government Association announced the Belong and Bridge executive tickets will continue to a runoff election. Per the Elections Code, the two tickets with the largest proportion of the vote where neither receive an absolute majority move on to a runoff. The election certification announcement, which was held through Zoom, was previously scheduled for 5 p.m. but was delayed until 5:50 p.m. due to a last minute Elections Committee hearing. Th...

ATLANTA (AP) — With her children struggling in many classes last spring, Kelli Rivera became so frustrated with how her suburban Atlanta district was handling the coronavirus pandemic that she withdrew them to home-school them. Theyre back in public school and mostly attending class in person. For now. Rivera is thinking of enrolling her younger son in private school next year, and she hopes the state of Georgia might help her pay for it with an expansion of school choice programs. “We’v...

The University of Georgia Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution to hold an American Red Cross-sponsored blood drive on March 16 in the Memorial Hall Ballroom from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Senator Christopher Jue authored the resolution, saying giving blood is important during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said there is an increasing need for blood, and some high schools have not been able to hold typical blood drives due to the pandemic. “We, as students, are really a g...