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 “...”
FREE SPEECH REPORT: IU Bloomington, Notre Dame rank low in FIRE survey, but Purdue excels
By Steve Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen September 9, 2026 Indiana University Bloomington remains one of the nation’s worst colleges and universities when it comes to free speech on campus, according to a report released this week. IU Bloomington ranked 256th out of 261 instituti “...”
CALL TO PIONEERS: Board game at Harrison Presidential Site prompts players to collaborate to reach statehood
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 4, 2026 After a night of playing the board game Catan, Lindsey Beckley was observing one of her colleagues teach a group of young students about Indiana’s early history when she had a “hmm, I wonder” moment. The director of “...”
CHALKBEAT: Colorado school district uses Biblically infused reading curriculum from Texas
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters By Ann Schimke Chalkbeat August 6, 2026 Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outle “...”
NAME REMOVED: After calls for her firing, adjunct law prof deleted from IU website; routine maintenance cited
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 7, 2026 An IU adjunct law professor, whose controversial political video after the death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham incited two Indiana congressmen to call for her firing, no longer appears on the school’s website. However, the un “...”
BITTER AFTERTASTE: Blowback to IU professor’s stunt involving cake raises free-speech concerns
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen July 24, 2026 Just as Marie Antoinette’s alleged quip about cake inflamed her French subjects, an Indiana University part-time professor’s stunt with a bakery treat has ignited calls for her to be fired and highlighted the pressure acad “...”
VOTERS FACE HOMEWORK: Partisan school board elections, referendums coming in November
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen July 10, 2026 Indiana’s shift to partisan school board elections and limits on education-related referendums will require Hoosier voters to study harder before casting their ballots in November. The changes the Indiana General Assembly ma “...”
TRANSFORMATIVE GIFT: $2M endowment supports tomorrow’s leaders in BHPS’ Future Presidents of America program
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen July 6, 2026 At a special ceremony on Thursday, which honored the current class and alumni of its Future Presidents of America program, the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site announced a new endowment that will ensure the initiative contin “...”