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The third round of federal pandemic aid will direct $1.8 billion to Indianas K-12 schools.

View Comments Update, April 29: The HSE school board voted 6-1 on April 28 to slightly adjust the times for the school day to aid transportation schedules. Board member Brad Boyer was the no vote. The new times for 2021-22 are 8:30 to 3 p.m. for high school and 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. for intermediate/junior high. Elementary schools remain 7:40 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. Original story, Nov. 12, 2020: Hamilton Southeastern secondary students will be able to sleep later into the morning beginning next sc...

The local news crisis is a labor story As the pandemic spread across the world last year, newsrooms worldwide took a hit, as furloughs, layoffs, salary freezes, print reductions, outsourcing, consolidations, and closures accelerated across an already-beleaguered industry. Last week, Axios reported that 2020 yielded a record number of unionization efforts in US newsrooms, a trend that has been intensifying for years. Even as the economic crisis as exacerbated by COVID shows signs of slowing, the...

Indianapolis Public Schools is looking to add Hope Academy, Indiana’s only recovery high school, to its portfolio of charter school partners. Hope Academy has been serving substance-impacted students – those in various stages of addiction and recovery – for 16 years. Last summer, the school relocated to 3919 Madison Ave., on the city’s south side, with the hopes of better serving students of color, who traditionally lack access to such programs. Partnering with IPS through its innovatio...

Addressing the information gap for Black West Virginians When Crystal Good was sixteen years old, she tried to buy one of the last Black newspapers in West Virginia. “Looking back, I’m not sure how I thought I was going to pay for it,” Good says, laughing. “And of course, they wouldn’t sell me the paper, but they asked me to sell ads for them. And I was like, Oh, hell no.” Years later, Good is building a publication of her own, one “that allows for Black voices to have their own ...

Reopening Indiana schools last fall did contribute to the spread of COVID-19 cases, a new study found, but not as much as researchers expected to find. The study from a team of Indiana University researchers, doctors, statisticians and educators, found that in-person school did result in additional cases of COVID-19 but the number of cases attributable to in-person school was very low compared to total new cases. “Opening schools we knew would have risk,” Dr. Gabriel Bosslet, associate pro...

School Board hears plans for new classes Jessica Stölen-Jacobson Montevideo School Board members who are part of separate committees reported to the remainder of the board the news from the committee meetings over the past month at the regular monthly meeting Monday evening. One of the topics discussed was the Technology Committee meeting, in which board member Andrew Stenson was in attendance. He noted that one of the biggest topics of discussion at that meeting was the phone system that is c...

The Waverly City Schools Board of Educations regular meeting on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. in the High School study hall will now be a special meeting for

Looking for a future beyond print in western Iowa The Western Iowa Journalism Foundation was formed amid the pandemic to try to address the decline of journalism in the region. The foundation’s goal is to funnel philanthropic aid toward local publications with ever-decreasing margins so that those outlets can survive––and also plan for the future. It looks to do the work of connecting donors and grants to local outlets in western Iowa, so that news publishers can focus on the work of repo...

Inside stories Rahsaan “New York” Thomas met freelance journalist Emily Nonko at San Quentin State Prison in 2018. Thomas is 50, co-host of the Pulitzer-nominated Ear Hustle podcast, and currently incarcerated at the prison. He had decided to write years earlier, contributed numerous stories to San Quentin News, and was interested in connecting incarcerated people with those outside. Nonko, a New York-based freelance journalist who typically focuses on cities and urban policy, developed a ...