Caroline Beck

A year into the city's campaign to end chronic homelessness in Indianapolis by 2028, the Streets to Home Indy initiative has housed more than 200 individuals.

A candidate running for the District 4 seat on the Indianapolis Public Schools board is being challenged on her eligibility to run.

Karega Rausch, the leader of a national charter school organization with deep ties to the city's charter school world, was chosen as the first executive director for the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation.

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education unanimously approved a simplified outcomes-based funding formula that ties college funding to degree completion taking effect for the 2027-2028 fiscal year.

A new Indiana law that lets school board candidates run under a political party is now threatening to knock the only two candidates for an Indianapolis Public Schools board seat off the November ballot.

Both candidates for IPS District 4 are facing challenges to their candidacy, in part due to confusion about a new partisan school board law.

The city's annual homelessness count remained steady. It highlights gains in reducing street homelessness but continued shortages in long-term housing.

Results for Indiana's ILEARN exam are typically released in July. However, this year they're delayed by a month.

Julious Johnican, a first-year teacher, was filmed encouraging a student to keep beating a sobbing second-grader with disabilities at School 87 in 2023.

Indiana has issued 3,240 new childcare vouchers to families since April — the state's first wave of new approvals since it froze voucher enrollment in December 2024 due to a loss of pandemic-era funding.