‘TEMPORARY REPRIEVE’? IU reverses course and will print student paper, but distrust remains
By Steven Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen October 31, 2025 Indiana University has reversed course on its decision to end print publication of the Indiana Daily Student, its award-winning student newspaper, after two weeks of intensive blowback, including accusations of censorship a “...”
‘GRAY AREA’: Muncie forum examines LifeWise Academy and rising concern over religion in public schools
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen October 6, 2025 MUNCIE, Ind. — Concerns over Indiana public schools releasing students to attend off-campus Bible study during the school day brought more than 50 residents to the Unitarian Universalist Church last week for a community forum “...”
‘NO APPLICATION’: Indiana school board’s use of new sex ed law to pull books baffles its advocates and opponents
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 17, 2025 Hoosiers on both sides of Indiana’s newest sex education statute — and even the Republican state senator who wrote the law — say they are puzzled that a school board in northeastern Indiana is using it to justify remov “...”
‘SPIRITUAL WAR’: Beckwith blames ‘trans ideology’ for Minneapolis school shooting
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 5, 2025 Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, in a series of social media posts this week, described the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as both a spiritual conflict and evidence of what he calle “...”
ANTI-’WOKE’ AGENDA: Lt. Gov. Beckwith, allies planned strategies to push conservative ideology in schools in April meeting
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 27, 2025 At a closed-door meeting in April, Micah Beckwith and members of what the Indiana lieutenant governor called his Anti-Woke Advisory Committee laid out an aggressive strategy to expand conservative influence in public schools an “...”
POLITICAL SCHOOL BOARDS: Law allowing partisan races promises new election dynamics
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 18, 2025 Indiana school board candidates will be allowed to declare party affiliations on the ballot starting in 2026 — a controversial change that ends decades of officially nonpartisan elections and sets the stage for ideological cl “...”