Mirror Indy Story: Ivy Tech closes DEI offices becoming first Indy campus to react to national push to ban diversity initiatives
This story was originally published by Mirror Indy. By Claire Rafford Mirror Indy February 11, 2025 Ivy Tech Community College is closing all diversity, equity and belonging offices across the state. The move, announced Monday, is an effort to protect the community college’s “...”
TSF Story: Indiana high-schoolers tell lawmakers how gun violence has affected them
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Schyler Altherr TheStatehouseFile.com February 10, 2025 Hoosier high-school students arrived at the Indiana Statehouse Monday morning to protest gun violence. These students have grown up in a time when the leading c “...”
TPR CASE NOT OVER: Doctors Bernard, Rouse renew fight to keep terminated pregnancy reports private
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 11, 2025 Less than a week after Voices for Life and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office announced a settlement to release terminated pregnancy reports, two Indianapolis OB/GYNs are asking Marion County Superior Court to “...”
TSF story: More than 10 Indiana bills look to crack down on illegal immigration or help ICE
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com. By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com February 10, 2024 Indiana’s supermajority Republican General Assembly is scrutinizing more than 10 immigration bills, most of which are still sitting in committee. The bills would “...”
Chalkbeat Indiana story: The science of reading could inspire Indiana to change math instruction. But how?
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters By Aleksandra Appleton Chalkbeat Indiana February 10, 2025 Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s “...”
HARD-WON SECOND CHANCE: Veteran’s recognition at Statehouse shows power of problem-solving courts
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 10, 2025 Mark McDaniel recently found himself in a place he never thought he would be – the Indiana Statehouse getting a standing ovation from lawmakers and members of the judiciary. A former heavy equipment operator in the India “...”
TSF story: Another Indiana civics bill asks when and how to teach America’s flaws
This story was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com February 7, 2025 In 2022, the Indiana Board of Education approved new civics standards for sixth graders. These standards came after the establishment of the Indiana Civic Education “...”
ICC story: Indiana Senate OKs anti-DEI bill that takes aim at state agencies, schools
This story was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle By Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle February 7, 2025 Indiana senators advanced a hotly-debated bill Thursday that cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in schools and state government. Sena “...”
ELECTION SECURITY OR DISENFRANCHISEMENT? GOP lawmakers greenlighting contentious Indiana bills
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen February 7, 2025 Of the numerous election and voting bills filed in the 2025 Indiana General Assembly session, the two bills described by Common Cause Indiana as the worst – Senate Bill 10 and House Bill 1680 – are moving through the St “...”
PNS story: Federal Funding Freeze puts pause on EV charger station installments in Indiana
This story was originally published by Public News Service. By Terri Dee, anchor/producer Public News Service February 6, 2025 The number of registered electric vehicles in Indiana rose from 13,000 in 2023 to nearly 15,000 in 2024. However, plans to install more EV chargers in In “...”