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The third round of federal pandemic aid will direct $1.8 billion to Indiana's 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 school year, thanks to new start time schedules approved by the HSE Board of School Trustees. The new ...

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 union movement is trending in the opposite direction. “It’s going to explode,” Jon Schleuss, ...

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 innovation network will strengthen that initiative, said Rachelle Gardner, executive director of Hope Academy...

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 microphones, not the microphone passed to them and then taken back,” she says.