‘THEY CONTROL THE IDEOLOGY’: Beckwith urges greater attention on school board races at Clarksville town hall
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen October 6, 2026 CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith urged both churches and voters Monday night to pay closer attention to Indiana’s school board races, arguing that local boards have an outsized influence over public education, in “...”
CHALKBEAT: ICE arrests near schools and bus stops causing disruptions and anger
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters By Lily Altavena Chalkbeat September 28, 2026 Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the to “...”
UNEXCUSED ABSENCE: High-school freshman with medical conditions caught in Indiana’s crackdown on absenteeism
By Olivia O’Neal TheStatehouseFile.com September 25, 2026 In March 2026, as Layna Ziegler was about to begin her second semester at Western Boone Junior-Senior High School in Thorntown, her parents, Crystal and Jacob Ziegler, unexpectedly received a letter from the Boone Co “...”
MAGIC IN HER CLASSROOM: Indianapolis teacher wins national award for ‘messy, chaotic’ civics lessons
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 25, 2026 Watching her 10-year-old students craft legislation as part of a class exercise on how a bill becomes a law, Kaylea Dominguez, who had designated herself as “president,” began to get a feeling of unease, which undoubt “...”
Indiana’s DEI fight moves from Statehouse to classrooms as school board elections turn partisan
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 21, 2026 As Indiana prepares for its first school board elections in which candidates can identify their political party affiliation on the ballot, conservative elected officials and activists are increasingly focusing on individual “...”
LANDMARK RULINGS: Indiana cases heard by U.S. Supreme Court examined in Constitution Day event
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 18, 2026 To mark this year’s Constitution Day, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law examined the founding document in action by reviewing a handful cases that started with disputes in the Hoosier State, before tra “...”
PURDUE EXPONENT: NYU law professor delivers Constitution Day lecture, addresses political polarization
By Amelia Angelone The Purdue Exponent September 18, 2026 WEST LAFAYETTE – Over two centuries after the founding of the United States and the writing of its foundational documents, much has changed for our present-day democracy. Though, Professor Richard Pildes says there a “...”
PUBLIC DOLLARS: Indiana school voucher spending, enrollment set records
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen September 17, 2026 Spending on Indiana’s private school voucher program topped a half billion dollars in 2025-26, according to a report released this week by the Indiana Department of Education. A record 80,548 students participated in the “...”
CLASSROOM TALLY: IU logs majority of complaints under state law regulating campus instruction
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen September 16, 2026 Indiana University accounted for well over half the complaints against faculty filed last year under Indiana’s “intellectual diversity” law, according to Commission for Higher Education data. Statewide, 33 complaints “...”
PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Hoosiers United to host forum about Christian nationalism, Moreau will lead panel discussion
By Greta Lapp Klassen The Indiana Citizen September 15, 2026 Hoosiers United for the Separation of Church and State will be putting the spotlight on the growth of Christian nationalism in Indiana schools and at the Statehouse this Saturday, Sept. 19 at its second annual Larry H “...”