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Prairie Heights students got to cover Principal Troy Gaff in silly string after raising over $13,000 for the American Heart Association.

INDIANAPOLIS — After school years disrupted by COVID-19, most educators expected standardized test scores to suffer. That panned out, both statewide and locally as most school districts saw passing rates for Indiana’s ILEARN test drop in 2021, with some districts losing 10 percentage points or more compared to their 2019 figures. To start with, ILEARN has never had good passing rates — the wide majority of students in Indiana don’t pass both math and English portions of the standardized test, which is given to students in grade 3-8 as well as high school sophomores. Statew...

All local counties rated yellow for COVID

ALBION — Nothing has been set in stone, but the Central Noble School Corp. has a tentative plan of what to do with its Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund monies — add staff. Congress created the fund to address the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the website curriculumassociates.com, Indiana received $214.4 million in emergency ESSER I funds, another $888.1 million as part of the ESSER II funding, and an additional $1.9 billion as part of the ESSER III funding. During Tuesday’s regularly scheduled school board meeting, corporatio...

More than 88% of all high school seniors graduated and received their diplomas in the pandemic-affected 2019-20 school year, with local school districts seeing a mix of minor improvements or