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Indiana — 1865, Indiana State Normal School. The Indiana General Assembly established the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute on December 20, 1865. Its location in Terre Haute was secured by a donation of $73,000 by Chauncey Rose. As the State Normal School, its core mission was to educate elementary and high school teachers.
In 2017, Gary Community Corp became the first school system in Indiana involved in a state takeover. Control of the district was transferred from the elected school board and appointed school superintendent to the State of Indiana's Distressed Unit Appeals Board, which placed MGT Consulting and Emergency Fiscal Manager Peggy Hinckley in charge of managing the district. [2]
www .nccsc .k12 .in .us. The New Castle Community School Corporation is a public school corporation located in New Castle, Indiana. In addition to New Castle, the district serves all of Henry Township and an adjoining portion of Liberty Township in Henry County, Indiana. The district has one high school, one middle school, and six elementary ...
Indianapolis Public Schools(IPS) Indianapolis Public Schools ( IPS) is the largest school district in Indianapolis, and the second largest school district in the state of Indiana as of 2021, behind Fort Wayne Community Schools. [ 2] The district's headquarters are in the John Morton-Finney Center for Educational Services.
May 8–14 (2nd Wednesday) – Day of the Teacher (schools open, but with related instructions) May 22 – Harvey Milk Day (schools open, but with related instructions) September 22–28 (4th Monday) – Native American Day (schools closed) October 25 – Larry Itliong Day (schools open, but with related instructions)
The Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) is a statewide professional association and labor union which represents more than 45,000 public school teachers and education support professionals, staff in state higher education institutions, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. It is affiliated with the National ...
On March 22, 2016, Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana, signed the House Enrolled Act 1395 at Eagle Elementary School in Zionsville, Indiana, which has the effect of eliminating ISTEP by July 1, 2017. The bill will also give way for a 23-member panel to study and formulate an alternative No Child Left Behind test to ISTEP.
Indiana has some of the most segregated schools in the United States. Despite laws demanding school integration since 1949, a 2017 study by the UCLA Civil Rights Project and Indiana University found that Indiana still has significant segregation in its classrooms. The average black student in Indiana is likely to attend a school where 68% of ...