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Pokagon Band sees K-12 SBOE un-pauses A-F review Tribe eyes charter model, compact schools Consultant issues accountability calculation recommendations After 17 years of operating a Head Start The Indiana State Board of Education held a lengthy August 23 working center, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi session to hear recommendations from ExcelinEd CEO Patricia Levesque on Indians establishes its own early childhood how to improve the school accountability model to provide greater learning and development academy, which transparency into school effectiveness. will open the day after Labor Day. Recall that in July 2017, SBOE initiated the rulemaking process on the state Located in Dowagiac, Michigan, the program accountability regulation, and in January 2018, proposed revisions were emphasizes a curriculum of indigenous published for public comment. Six public hearings were held. But in March culture and heritage, STEM careers in the 2018 the Board decided to abandon the effort and start all over. environment, and contemporary and traditional agriculture, including the Three Sisters. Exciting changes are coming to your favorite newsletter ! Because the Pokagon Band will fully fund the new program, they will no longer be subject One change you may not notice but should be aware of involves the to Head Start’s restrictions on integrating delivery mechanism. Starting in September, Hannah’s three Indiana cultural components into the classroom. Insight newsletters will be delivered via the Constant Contact email The Pokagons are also constructing a green platform. house where students will be able to raise plants and are looking to build a wigwam Most subscribers will not need to take any action. However, if your that will function as a teaching lodge for spam filters are sensitive – or you just want to be safe, you can add cultural activities. “[email protected]” to your contacts and/or safe list in your email program. Gmail users are encouraged to check their Promotions The population of the Pokagon Band is folder for the newsletters as well. projected to roughly double over the next 20 years. About 535 school-age Native We appreciate your help as we streamline and professionalize our Americans reside in the tribe’s 10 county newsletter delivery. Indiana-Michigan service area: LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Starke, Marshall, and Other changes coming in September . . . advertising! A small number Kosciusko counties, plus four counties in of ads will appear in the newsletters moving forward. Michigan. Children in the PBPI village in South Bend You can learn more about reaching our robust audience of policy and are eligible to enroll, although transportation government leaders here: time will likely be a limiting factor.

http://www.hannah-in.com/ShowDocument.aspx?PressReleaseID=456 “My dream is for the tribe to operate a program from pre-K all the way through vocational and college partnerships,” says Key takeaways from CEO Levesque’s presentation: Sam Morseau, director of education for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. “I’m Growth Fairness not foreseeing it happen anytime soon. We Normative growth, which compare the progress of a given student with the wanted to start with the youngest generations progress of similar students across the state, relies on factors outside a and get feedback before we start building an school’s control, namely the performance of other schools. educational institution,” Morseau tells your favorite education newsletter in a phone Normative growth results can’t tell you about a school’s ability to make sure interview. In the most optimistic scenario, a student is on track to be ready for college or reach grade-level standards, they’d expand to K-3 within 10 years. and normative growth models are a zero-sum game because there are “always Morseau acknowledges that the charter winners and losers,” said Levesque. school model could be an option. Another possibility is a tribal compact school, he says. “I highly discourage using normative growth models,” she said. The program is funded mostly through Levesque recommended that Indiana adopt criterion-based growth to measure money collected from the tribe’s Four Winds student progress toward proficiency. With criterion growth, student casinos in New Buffalo, Hartford, Dowagiac, expectations are consistent from year-to-year, and if met each year, will result and South Bend. “We’re relying heavily on in students attaining proficiency. gaming revenues to support the new program while our other economic diversification For more, please see the following page . . . ventures take effect,” says Morseau. Hannah NEWS SERVICE indianainsight.com August 27, 2018/2

She did not address how growth and proficiency should be One thing the state can do to mitigate the confusion is to weighted, but in other forums, the Foundation for Excellence release both sets of grades at the same time, advises Levesque, in Education (ExcelinEd) has recommended that growth and who added that the state should strive toward a single system proficiency be weighted evenly. in the future. Avoid the Kitchen Sink Build in Automatic Increases in the System Trigger ExcelinEd believes that attendance, parental satisfaction, and The grading scale should get tougher as more schools school climate surveys should not be part of a school’s letter experience success, Levesque said. grade because they do not ensure that students are learning and dilute the emphasis on student outcomes. She recommends the trigger be set between 65% and 75%. For example, the threshold to earn each letter grade would The indicators that make up the accountability system should increase in the year after 65% or more of schools earn an A communicate three priority messages to educators, according or B. to Leveque: *** (1) help every child get to grade level proficiency or higher (2) help every child make annual progress What did Board members think? (3) help the most struggling students make great progress Dr. Byron Ernest observed that the recommendations leaned Whatever indicators you measure, “principals will hold very heavy on state standardized testing results. During the teachers accountable for, which can be a distraction from development of the Graduation Pathways requirements, ensuring that all kids perform at grade level and make recalled Dr. Ernest, universities and employers said loud and progress,” Levesque said. clear that they didn’t care about test scores. Scoring schools on student attendance can result in districts Attorney Tony Walker commented that it would be nice if enacting harsh policies that offend parents, Leveque contends. test scores could be reduced to only 10% of the letter grade For example, a district may decide that the only excused calculation. absences will be for medical reasons, and as a result, a child attending Nana’s 90th birthday party would receive a zero for Prior to the Levesque presentation, SBOE members were told that day. by a facilitator “don’t worry about being right, have fun” and “don’t interrupt yourself, stream your thoughts.” Participation rates for certain courses have no relationship to quality or outcomes, said Levesque. “Measuring actual student outcomes makes actual student outcomes matter,” she The Board has not established a new timeline for finalizing explains. Forcing participation can negatively impact course A-F revisions. rigor and student motivation. For climate surveys, the state would need to transparently report outcomes for a year or two to give educators time to IN Elementary & Secondary Ed get used to the data before putting it into the accountability system, she advised. IN General . . . ! Mooresville Schools has been listed as a school district “I’m not saying fewer indicators is better,” Levesque with one of the 10 best online school “brands” in the country remarked, but “Too many indicators can become very by eSchoolNews. distracting.” ! Among states without the Common Core academic “Your accountability system doesn’t have to solve every standards, Indiana has the best English Language Arts problem in the state,” Levesque added. “Remember the standards and the second-best math standards, according to accountability system is just one tool. Don’t forget there are The State of State Standards Post-Common Core , a new other policy levers.” report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. ! Create a Unified Federal - State System Warsaw Community Schools launches the Gaggle Releasing two different sets of school grades is a SpeakUp Safety Tipline, which integrates directly with G communications nightmare, especially for schools that receive Suite for Education from Google. Trained Gaggle Safety two different grades. representatives evaluate SpeakUp tips 24 hours a day, seven days a week and send an email to designated school/district Letter grades awarded under the Every Student Succeeds staff whenever they receive non-life-threatening items. (ESSA) plan will likely be slightly lower, due to the more restrictive federal graduation rate definition and the English Q The Gaggle team members call school/district officials or language proficiency indicator. even law enforcement in emergency situations.

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! The Princeton Common Council votes down a proposal Q The district believes that the dog will help reinforce the to appropriate $35,000 to support a school resource officer thought that random drug searches can occur at any time, for the North Gibson School Corporation . . . and informs and will assist in what are expected to be daily searches the school district that beginning in 2019 it will no longer throughout the district’s facilities. fund the existing SRO position. The police chief tells the Princeton Daily Clarion “he views the council’s action as ! Westfield Washington Schools offered a pair of half-day taking a step back ten years. ‘I don’t understand it. I’m blown “Parent University” sessions at the beginning of the month, away’ ... ‘I fear for the safety of children now.’ ” One council seeking to involve parents with students in the district and member commented to the newspaper, “North Gibson offer workshops on topics including e-learning, internet schools include students from outside the city, and the City safety, the district’s safety plan, testing, and more. of Princeton’s taxpayers shouldn’t be the only partner with the school in paying for school security.” Q Businesses and organizations offering assorted services ! and resources for families were also on hand at the free event The Lake County Board of Elections and Voter to outline what they can do to help families in the district. Registration denies a request from the Griffith City Schools to move the four polling sites located within school ! The Vigo County School Corporation is making it easier buildings. A member of the local election board said the for parents to establish and access student lunch accounts by school district could consider keeping students at home and allowing parents to complete the application for free/reduced holding an e-learning day, reports the Times of Northwest meals online. More than one-half of VCSC’s students qualify Indiana . State law requires that school buildings be available for the program. The MySchoolBucks app will also be as polling locations. available both online and in the form of a mobile device app, Q allowing parents to view what their child has menus, Superintendent Michelle Riise wrote to the election nutritional values, what the student has purchased for lunch, board, “As you are aware, school safety and security is the the balance in an account, and other details. The app also No. 1 focus of all school districts across the nation since the allows parents to set certain alerts. rise of school shootings and violence, and the Griffith Public Schools is not exempt from this being one of our highest ! Milan Community Schools has outfitted each of its priorities as we head into the next school year,” Riise wrote. standard school buses with a pair of new ProVision DVR-808 “We implore that the Lake County Election and Voter Video Systems high quality cameras, and each mini-bus will Registration Board take this request seriously and reassign have one camera. The new video system offers 1080p HD new polling locations for the precincts listed below as well.” video quality, automated video management, 16 channel HD ! video and audio, and with wireless file transfer. The district While the Sunman-Dearborn School Corporation school explains that the technology will allow instant wireless board continues to debate the propriety and logistics of download capability (the previous video technology required allowing employees to be armed on school property, the most removing the hard drive from the bus and insertion into a recent board meeting saw teachers and instructional assistants video player at the Central Office before footage could be eliminated from consideration for carrying firearms. The reviewed). proposed concealed carry policy would apply only to an employee whose primary responsibility is not the direct Q The technology upgrade was funded through a $20,000 supervision of students, or whose primary job location is not riverboat casino revenue grant from the Rising Sun Regional a classroom. Foundation. Q The overarching firearms carry philosophy seems to have ! CELL’s first Early College Network Meeting of the school enjoyed relatively strong public support, and will be back on year will be September 19 at the Decatur Gold Academy at the board’s agenda for discussion September 13. 5650 Mann Road in Indianapolis. The meeting will include Q a showcase of the newly endorsed Early College High Schools Under the current version of the proposal, a Sunman- and Career Centers and a call-out for schools interested in Dearborn employee who seeks to carry a handgun must pass pursuing endorsement during the 2018-19 school year. a psychiatric evaluation and complete two board-approved training courses. The type of weapon would be limited to a semi-automatic handgun that would fire only frangible !IN Administration . . . bullets (those that are brittle and less prone to ricochet), and The Duneland School Corporation enters into a four-year they would not be permitted to have a chambered round. The contract with Pepsi as the exclusive provider of all beverages weapon must also be carried on the employee’s person at all sold, dispensed, served, or made available at school facilities times, and not stored on campus. The identity of employees and school-sponsored special events. Pepsi will pay an annual certified to carry would be kept confidential. sponsorship fee of $11,000. ! ! Concord Community Schools, which already maintains its The Oregon-Davis School Corporation becomes the state’s own three-officer police force, will now add a canine officer 77th school district to engage Educational Service Centers to the team, a 2-year-old German Dutch mix German Risk Funding Trust (ESCRFT) as the corporation’s property Shepherd. and casualty insurance provider.

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Q Oregon-Davis anticipates significant cost savings — more Q No one would be surprised if during the 2019 legislative than 30% — from switching to the insurance cooperative that session, Gary lawmakers push for the loans to be forgiven specifically serves Indiana’s public school districts. (one of the new lawmakers is expected to be Gary City Councilmember Ragen Hatcher (D), the school district’s ! The North Knox School Corporation Board of School former in-house counsel, before she was fired by an older Trustees unanimously approves accepting a special donation school board). to establish a fund for district children who fall behind on Q their school lunch accounts due to family hardships. North MGT has been laying the groundwork for an operating Knox-area resident Robert Cullen made the contribution in referendum campaign for the Gary Community School honor of his son, a North Knox graduate and Army Corporation in November 2019. lieutenant who lost his life in a military helicopter accident ! earlier this year. Upcoming school district bond issues (all with Umbaugh LLP as financial advisor) include: Tuesday, August 28 — ! After having worked successfully with Indianapolis-based Blackford County School Building Corporation Ad Valorem Performance Services on a guaranteed energy savings program Property Tax First Mortgage Bonds, Series 2018 ($5,000,000), (involving new boilers at Connersville Middle School, 2019 — 2028 maturity dates . . . Wednesday, August 29 — lighting, and other projects), the Fayette County School Concord Community School Building Corporation Ad Corporation School Board is considering using the company Valorem Property Tax First Mortgage Bonds, Series 2018B again, this time for a $2 million ground-mounted solar array ($7,120,000), 2019 — 2028 maturity dates . . . Thursday, on about three acres that would help power Connersville September 27 — Lebanon Community School Corporation High School (contributing about 60% of the needed General Obligation Bonds of 2018 ($5,000,000), 2019 — 2023 electricity). maturity dates. Q Savings on electric bills and 15-year state solar energy IN Compensation . . . credits are expected to cover the estimated $2.43 million ! The Knox Community School Corporation reduces the project costs, and then offer a solid return after two decades. number of bereavement days for staff from 10 to five, and The board will host another public meeting to review the plans to make a similar change for teachers when the new project on August 30 contract is negotiated. ! The White River Valley Elementary School now offers ! The M.S.D. of Lawrence Township will compensate students the opportunity to see a licensed health care teachers with an extra day off during 2019-2020 and 2020- provider without leaving school via a telehealth program 2021 in exchange for teachers working late for two hours for established with the support of the Indiana Rural Health four days for parent teacher conferences. Association. When a student presents symptoms that are beyond the scope of care for the school nurse, the student IN Non-Public Schools . . . will be seen by a licensed provider through two-way video and ! The International School of Indiana selects Elizabeth virtual diagnostic equipment. Head as the new Head of School, beginning January 2, 2019. She is currently general director of the Pan-American School IN Budgets & Finance . . . in Costa Rica. She was raised in Colorado and brings more ! The Indiana State Board of Finance approves a 1.0% than 20 years of international education experience. interest rate on advancements from the Common School ! Fund for school safety. During the 2018 special legislative With less than one month until the September 1 deadline session, lawmakers opened up $35 million in the CSF to use to apply for a school voucher, the Indiana State Board of on school safety . . . and demand for the money is expected Education at its August meeting votes to grant freeway to be high. accreditation to the Apogee School for the Gifted. Apogee says the only other gifted schools in Indianapolis are ! The Gary Community School Corporation anticipates Sycamore School and Sidener Academy. The school's business seeking another emergency loan from the state in October to model rests on having at least 12 students paying an average cover payroll. The district has not asked for financial of $13,000 each. Apogee is located across the street from IPS assistance since April. GCSC expects to need several more 70 in leased space within the Northwood Church building at state bailouts through the end of 2019, especially given that 46th & Central. current student enrollment is again down significantly. ! Reginald Shelt has been named assistant director of the Q Peggy Hinckley , the Emergency Manager of the GCSC Upper School at Park Tudor. He spent the past six years as (whose entity earned $200,000 in state incentives Monday for assistant principal at Lawrence Central High School. establishing a facilities plan and a policy for maintaining ! internal bookkeeping controls), is looking to make a formal The decision by Roncalli High School’s board to suspend request to the state in September to delay repayment on its a long-time female guidance counselor after it learned she has approximately $45 million in Common School Fund loan been married to a woman led to board resignations and debt. student and parent protests . . . and lots of news stories.

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Q The counselor’s attorney suggests she may be fired during Q IDOE also seeks a vendor to analyze the programs and the last week of August, and some state lawmakers (including outcomes supported by the STEM K-6 Acceleration Grants Rep. Dan Forestal (D) of Indianapolis, a Roncalli alum) are and must evaluate each Indiana STEM certified school (60 looking into how they might be able to stop state voucher total) programs and outcomes. Vendor must assist IDOE “in payments to private and religious educational institutions the development of a framework for measuring the impact of that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. STEM strategy implementation.” Responses to RFP 19-002 are due September 27. Q Recall similar issues were raised a few years ago when a ! Fort Wayne Catholic school language-arts teacher was alleged Students in grades 1-6 in the Beech Grove City Schools to have violated terms of her St. Vincent de Paul School will have separate teachers for math, reading, and teaching contract when she and her husband conceived a science/social studies under an instructional model where the child through in vitro fertilization. She ended up suing and elementary teachers are content-area specialists. own a $1.95 million verdict against the Catholic Diocese of ! Fort Wayne-South Bend. THOR Industries, the largest employer in Elkhart County and the largest Recreational Vehicle manufacturer in the world, faces a talent problem: the company projects it will !IN Charter Schools . . . have 500-600 job openings over the next five years. To address The Indiana Finance Authority issues $14.715 million in its manpower needs, THOR collaborated with the Wa-Nee bonds on behalf of the Rock Creek Community Academy for Community Schools to create a customized training pipeline a new charter school building in Sellersburg ($14,490,000 for hiring students directly out of high school. Graduates of Educational Facilities Revenue Bonds, Series 2018A; and the program at NorthWood High School will receive a $225,000* Taxable Educational Facilities Revenue Bonds, THOR Industries RV Construction Certification, a Series 2018B). PNC Capital markets LLC is the lead manager guaranteed job interview, and after two weeks of successful and Frost Brown Todd LLC serves as bond counsel. employment, will immediately qualify to earn a minimum of $20 per hour. Q Construction on the new facility began in August 2018 and is expected to be complete in December 2019. The ! Students who earn the Governor’s Work Ethic Certificate building will allow the school to increase its capacity from in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will be 550 to 800. The total construction budget is $12.55 million, guaranteed job interviews with eight regional employers, and the builder is James L. Shireman, Inc. including Berry Global, Koch Enterprises, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, and Old National Bancorp. Other benefits ! The GEO Foundation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony include gym memberships. In addition, many are offering August 9 for its third location in Gary. The 21st Century increased base pay, bonus vacation days, sign-on bonuses, Charter School opened in 2005, Gary Middle College opened gym memberships and more. For students continuing their in 2012, and now GEO opens Gary Middle College West education, some institutions are waiving college orientation serving students 16 and up from the westside as well as from classes. Old National Bank offers a scholarship opportunity East Chicago, Hammond, and other communities. exclusively for students completing the certificate.

IN Programs & Curriculum . . . !IN Policy . . . ! The Indiana Department of Administration issues a WRTV-TV in Indianapolis reports that the Hamilton Request for Proposals on behalf of the Indiana Department Southeastern Schools has allowed about 60 four-year olds to of Education for “STEM Programming Evaluation Services.” enroll in kindergarten at a cost to the district of $300,000. Senate Committee on Appropriations Chair Ryan Mishler Q In Spring 2017, IDOE was awarded $2 million in STEM (R) of Bremen tells the TV station, “When looking into the increased enrollment for the 2017-2018 school year, one of Alignment Funds by the General Assembly toward developing the main factors was a significant increase in 4-year-old a statewide strategic plan for STEM education. To garner students who were appealing to enroll in kindergarten early support for associated funding requests to support the plan’s and then repeating kindergarten in the next year,” said Sen. implementation, IDOE seeks a vendor to assist with various Mishler. “We found that some schools were using this as a research objectives. The vendor would be expected to develop kind of state-funded pre-K program, which is not the intent and administer a survey for K-12 administrators and teachers of the school funding formula.” to collect data for an Indiana STEM Landscape Report on the various STEM curricula in use across the state, average daily ! The Indiana High School Athletic Association adopts a instructional time spent on STEM by grade level, number of by-law amendment providing that any fan who is ejected students participating in STEM curricula and courses, from a contest for unsportsmanlike behavior shall be professional development needs, costs associated with STEM prohibited from attending the next home contest. After a curricula and professional development, STEM collaborations second ejection for unsportsmanlike behavior, the fan is with higher education and industry, and STEM program prohibited from attending the next two home contests. There goals and outcomes. The prospective vendor must draw were 29 fan ejections during 2017-2018, according to the policy implications from the survey results. IHSAA, up from 13 in 2016-2017.

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! The Lake Central School Corporation threatens to revoke ! The $37.6 million building project proposed by the student privileges, such as parking passes and prom tickets, DeKalb Central Schools won’t go to a November referendum. for failure to pay textbook fees . . . although some members Opponents had turned in enough signatures to trigger a of the school board expressed opposition to the suggestion. referendum, and the DeKalb County Election Board Superintendent Larry Veracco “said the book fund was in the approved the ballot question on July 24. However, the black as recently as 3½ years ago and now it is $600,000 in concerned citizens group erred by not realizing that the the red,” reports the Times of Northwest Indiana . The district district boundaries extend into Steuben County. Approval turned $352,000 in unpaid fees over to a collection agency for from Steuben County entities was not obtained prior to the 2017-2018, and about half has been collected. noon deadline on August 1 for the Department of Local Government Finance’s approval. ! Beginning with the class of 2023, students in the Plainfield Community School Corporation will be required to complete Q While the issue will not be on the November ballot, look one course from each group to receive a high school diploma: for it to be considered by voters next May, as the school board voted unanimously Tuesday to move the facilities Group A upgrade to the May 7, 2019 primary election ballot. In a Preparing for College and Careers Wednesday statement, Superintendent Steve Teders asserts, PLTW: Intro to Engineering “We believe the question meets the requirements of the PLTW: Principles of Biomedical Science statute, and now it will become our responsibility to Intro to Computer Science continue, as we have done to the point, to educate and Principles of Business Management inform our stakeholders that this debt will be replacing existing debt and will be tax-rate neutral.” Group B Personal Financial Responsibility !IN Construction & Facilities . . . Adult Roles The M.S.D. of Lawrence Township is seeking architectural services for a $9 million project at Amy Beverland Consumer Economics Elementary School that would include a complete renovation, addition of four classrooms, and a new entrance/exit to the !IN Non-Profits. . . north with a traffic signal on Fox Road, and a $7.5 million Teachers’ Treasures in Indianapolis has now distributed project at Sunnyside Elementary School that includes a $56 million worth of free school supplies to teachers of needy complete renovation, three additional classrooms, and a new students since its establishment in 2000. entrance/exit to the southeast parking lot to accommodate ! bus traffic. MSDLT hopes to bid both projects in About 444 volunteers organized by the non-profit School February/March and break ground in May/June. As a result on Wheels of Indianapolis provided 5,608 hours of tutoring of the projects, the LT schools will no longer need to have to hundreds of children impacted by homelessness in Central portable classrooms. Indiana. Of students who were able to engage with School on Wheels for at least 30 tutoring sessions, 98% were promoted ! The Muncie Community Schools receives approval from to the next grade. the school board to solicit quotes for emergency repairs to the Muncie Fieldhouse, which sustained roof damage during !IN Referenda . . . a November 2017 storm that led to extensive interior Twelve school referenda are on the ballot this November, flooding and water damage. About $1.2 million of the repairs the most for any general election since 2010. Three are for will be covered by insurance, reports the Muncie Star Press . construction; nine are for general operations. With two Officials tentatively hope the historic fieldhouse can be school districts seeking both referenda types, a total of 10 reopened in time for the annual Christmas concert. districts have a referenda at stake on November 6. The Noblesville Schools will be asking patrons to approve a ! The Richland-Bean Blossom Community School referenda for a state-record sixth time. Corporation solicits bids for two projects: a connector ! between EPS and EIS that will include an art classroom, The Department of Local Government Finance approves music classroom, and maker-space; and new locker rooms and the wording of the public question that will face voters on concession stand. The district looks to start construction in the Culver ballot in November: “For the eight (8) calendar late September or early October. RBB is planning to request years immediately following the hold of the referendum, shall bids in December or January for two additional projects: the Culver Community Schools Corporation impose a improvements to the high school auditorium and elementary property tax rate that does not exceed seventeen cents, ( playgrounds. $.017) on each one hundred dollars, ($100) of assessed valuation and that is in addition to all other taxes imposed ! The Northwest Allen County Schools spends $1.4 million by the school corporation for the purpose of funding to purchase a 98-acre property centrally located within the academic and educationally-related programs, increasing district’s growing neighborhoods to site its eighth elementary student opportunities and students safety, managing class school. The sellers agreed to part with the property at a sizes, and attracting and retaining teachers?” below-market rate.

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! The Lebanon Community School Corporation plans to IN Government . . . issue a $5 million general obligation bond with a maximum ! Governor Eric Holcomb (R) held an Earn and Learn interest rate of 5.0% to finance building improvements over Roadshow August 8-10, accompanied at various stops by the next four years, including LED lighting, playground Department of Workforce Development Commissioner Fred renovations, roofing, HVAC, mechanical, parking, chiller Payne , Secretary of Career Connections and Talent Blair rebuild, locker rooms, and new buses. Milo , Governor’s Workforce Cabinet Chair Danny Lopez , ! and Office of Work-Based Learning and Apprenticeship The North Gibson School Corporation hosted a pair of Executive Director Darrel Zeck . community information meetings in August to share information about the proposed expansion and renovation Q The Next Level Jobs tour began in Greenfield at of the Primary School North building. Springhurst senior living center where the Guv learned about ! the culinary and nurse aide apprenticeship program offered The South Adams Schools school board on Tuesday on-the-job to employees of Trilogy Health Services. Secretary approved spending $97,949 on a new high school baseball Milo tweeted “Awesome kickoff to #EarnAndLearn week building, largely for concessions. @TrilogyLiving. +1300 apprentices & growing...all 111 IN ! locations to have partnership w/ at least 1 high school plus Knox Community Schools school board members @IvyTechCC. #FutureofEd.” The roadshow then went to authorize Superintendent William Reichhart to obtain Noblesville to tour Gaylor Electric and discuss career paths updated cost estimates for fencing for around the district’s and education-employer partnerships during a roundtable high school athletic facilities. that included U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks (R), Rep. Jerry Torr (R) of Carmel, Sens. John Ruckelshaus (R) and Jim Merritt (R) !IN Transition . . . of Indianapolis, and other local leaders. Gov. Holcomb David Woodward exits the Indiana Department of tweeted “Gaylor has an ABC apprenticeship program, a high Education where he served as director of school building, school internship program, and second chance & mentorship physical security, and safety to join the Carmel Clay Schools programs that help take Hoosiers to the #NextLevel.” On day as director of student services. two, Gov. Holcomb and crew went to Ivy Tech Community ! College Madison to see and hear how K-12, postsecondary, The Indiana Department of Education announces that industry, and government are collaborating toward a goal of Christy Berger has been named to the newly established having half of students in Madison Consolidated High position of assistant director of social emotional and School graduate with a certificate or other postsecondary behavioral wellness. She has a master’s degree in social work credential by 2020. Reps. Randy Frye (R) of Greensburg and from IUPUI and worked as a school social worker in the Jim Lucas (R) o Seymour also participated. On the final day, Center Grove Community School Corporation. the caravan descended on the town of Leopold to tour Perry ! Central High School and learn about the Commodore Kenneth Hanson becomes the new superintendent of the Manufacturing program where classroom projects include North Miami Community Schools. He had been assistant creating parts for Waupaca Foundry and Jasper Engines. The superintendent for the nearby Peru Community Schools. program is changing the image that students have of ! Brownstown Central Community School Corporation manufacturing, educators said. Superintendent Greg Walker will leave that post after three ! At the Indiana Manufacturer Association-sponsored years to become the new superintendent for the Paoli Employer & Educator Work Based Learning Conference Community School Corporation on October 1 under a three- August 16 in Indianapolis, Cook Medical President Pete year contract that carries an annual salary of $108,000. Yonkman told the audience “As employers, we can’t sit back ! The John Glenn School Board met with the University and wait for highly educated employees to show up at our Superintendent Search Team for the first time in August to door. We must be active participants in preparing our future begin to find a replacement for Superintendent Richard workforce.” Reese , who plans to retire in June at the end of the school ! year. Charlie Schlegel is serving as Transition Liaison on behalf of the State Board of Education to facilitate a School ! The Hamilton Community Schools hires Tony Cassel as Transition Task Force overseeing the return to the the new superintendent on a three-year deal through August Indianapolis Public Schools of the three turnaround 31, 2021. He'll be paid an annual salary of $95,000. academies operated by Charter Schools USA. He served as principal of the Challenge Foundation Academy from ! The Peru Community Schools elevates Dan Durrwachter 2008-2012 and later oversaw four schools as superintendent from assistant principal of Blair Pointe Upper Elementary of the Community Charter Network. School to assistant superintendent. ! Senate Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy Chair Travis ! The South Bend School Corporation school board votes Holdman (R) of Markle plans to introduce a bill during the to extend the contract of Superintendent Kenneth Spells by 2019 legislative session that would create a school safety two years, through 2021. referendum option for school corporations.

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Q The new option would work the same as an operating referendum, but the term could be up to 10 years. Additional IN Higher Education public hearings would be required to assure community involvement and input, and schools would also be required !IN General . . . to consult with their local law enforcement officials. The Fall-to-Fall retention rate of students who started college in Indiana in 2016 was 63.5%, according to the IN Courts & Conduct . . . National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — up from ! A fight at Arsenal Tech High School that started small in 41.9% in 2009. The Fall-to-Fall persistence rate for the 2016 the lunchroom and then spilled outside into the schoolyard entering cohort was 73.8% — up from 70.2% in 2009. The where it turned into what student deemed a full-on riot report, which includes all institutional sectors, defines the resulted in several teens being taken to the hospital, other retention rate as the percentage of students who return to the teens treated for injuries at the scene, and 13 arrested for same institution and the persistence rate as the percentage of disorderly conduct. Hundreds of teens left the lunchroom to students who return to college at any institution. observe the fights, which led to additional altercations. ! Indianapolis police used pepper spray to break up the crowds. The Purdue Exponent posted photos on Instagram that Some were quick to blame the consolidation from seven high quickly went viral of temporary dorm rooms set up in schools last year to four high schools this year. Some have basements and study lounges on the West Lafayette campus. said the fights were the result of students from the westside The auxiliary housing spaces were blasted on social media of the city clashing with students from the eastside. Parents their resemblance to a prison, jail, boot camp, barracks, and complained that they didn’t hear any communication from half-way house. Purdue officials told Buzz Feed that “To deal the school principal or district officials about the incident with high and fluctuating volumes of applicants who want to until much later in the evening. Administrators responded live on campus, the university offers these temporary living that they wanted to make sure they had accurate information spaces until they are reassigned more official housing that to share and a plan for students’ safe return before opens up.” communicating with parents. ! The Pioneer Institute in Boston announces that Purdue ! The head custodian at Maconaquah High School is hailed University’s “Back a Boiler” program is the winner of the for taking quick action when a 14-year-old boy riding a 27th annual Better Government Competition. bicycle showed up with what appeared to be a handgun. Mike ! The four-year graduation rate for the Class of 2018 at Glassburn ordered the teen to place the weapon on the DePauw University was 83.46%, the highest level in 30 years. ground and then called for help. The Miami County Sheriff’s Office and Indiana State Police soon arrived and took the ! Ivy Tech Community College awarded 25,803 certificates, teen to a juvenile facility. The gun was later determined to be technical certificates and associate degrees in 2017-2018, an an Airsoft BB gun. The teen also had two knives. increase of more than 4,500 over last year, and beating its ! own internal goal of 23,000 credentials as established in the Officials with the Portage Township Schools are irate after January 2018 strategic plan. Ivy Tech has set a goal of 30,000 city officials disregarded the school board-approved school credentials in 2019-2020 and 50,000 credentials in 2021-2022. safety plan by assigning a pair of city police officers to patrol two public school buildings on the first day of class. The ! LendEDU, an online marketplace for a variety of financial district asked the pair of police officers to leave the buildings, products, including student loans, personal loans, and credit so they have stationed themselves in the parking lot. The cards, analyzes data from more than 1,000 colleges and school district’s safety plan calls for using part-time officers universities, and finds that the average student loan debt from a mix of jurisdictions, including the sheriff and state load of Indiana University East ($22,392) is the lowest in police. The police department is evidently not happy to have Indiana, and well below the national averages. The state’s other law enforcement agencies come onto their turf and feel second-lowest average student loan debt I found among disrespected by the school district’s plan. The district has graduates of DePauw University ($23,635). The average threatened to file for an injunction to block the police borrower in the DePauw Class of 2017 graduated $28,288 in department from “invading the legal right of the school debt, an increase of $313 from the 2016 graduating class. district to carry out our necessary operations in regard to the Among private school graduates, the national average was board-approved SRO plan.” $31,665; for public institutions it was $26,846. Across the ! United States, about 58% of graduates from the Class of 2017 The Vigo County School Corporation will be repaid at non-profit four-year public and private colleges were $88,000 by a lawn care, landscaping, and tree removal encumbered with student loan debt. company that cost the district a six-figure amount through its participation in a kickback scheme. M&P Properties agreed to Q Among 33 Indiana institutions, Rose-Hulman Institute a court settlement on Monday (facilitated by Special Judge of Technology graduates carried the highest debt load Robert E. Hunley II of the Sullivan County Circuit Court) ($45,345), followed by Indiana Tech and Butler University. after the district filed suit in Vigo County Superior Court 2 The statewide average was $29,405. against the scheme’s perpetrators. Vigo Co. School Corp. v. M & P Properties Group, LLC, et al. , No. 84D02-1802-CT- Q LendEDU finds that Indiana, as a state, ranked 31st 001243. nationally in average student debt.

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! DePauw University President D. Mark McCoy organizes IN Administration . . . a letter signed by the presidents of two-dozen Hoosier ! Five deputies from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s non-public colleges and universities calling on the General Office have been chosen for assignment to the campus of the Assembly to enact hate crimes legislation. The letter is University of Southern Indiana, which does not have its own addressed to Sen. Rodric Bray (R) of Martinsville, who is police force. expected to become Senate president pro tem in November. ! Q Out of an abundance of caution following the recent The presidents write “We stand with Governor Holcomb testing of Franklin-area homes that found levels of toxic when he says, ‘No law can stop evil, but we should be clear chemicals exceeding recommended contamination limits, that our state stands with the victims & their voices will not Franklin College contracts with Patriot Engineering and be silenced. For that reason, it is my intent that Indiana be 1 Environmental, Inc., to conduct comprehensive testing of of 46 states with hate crimes legislation — not 1 of 5 states indoor and outside ambient air quality and exterior and without it.’ We call upon our elected representatives to act sub-slab soil gas at 39 locations to assess for vapor intrusion. now in support of all Hoosiers, regardless of appearance, Groundwater samples were also tested at three locations. One location, orientations or religious beliefs,” the letter reads. week before the start of class, the College released the results They write: “Indiana is home to some of the nation’s most showing that all sites were non-detect except for two buildings respected colleges and universities and is a state with where presence of vapors was well below the exposure limits. wonderful assets and a welcoming spirit. This is a powerful opportunity to make certain that our students and citizens are afforded the same protections they are in all but five !IN Programs & Policy . . . other states.” China’s Ministry of Education terminates more than 200 Sino-foreign cooperative education programs, including the IN Enrollments. . . joint undergraduate program in English that the University ! IUPUI enrolls 4,131 students across its three locations in of Indianapolis operates with the Ningbo Institute of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Columbus. IUPUI's total Technology. UIndy continues to run undergraduate programs enrollment is 28,868 students, including 1,762 international with Ningbo in international business and finance. students hailing from 147 countries. ! The College of Engineering and Krannert School of ! Marian University welcomed the largest freshman class in Management at Purdue University team up to offer students the school’s history. The number of first-time, full-time the ability to earn a master’s degree in engineering and an students is projected to top 400 for the first time ever. MBA in two years, rather than the three it would take to earn them separately. ! Saint Mary-of-the-Woods reports 200 new students (160 ! first-time freshmen and 40 transfer students), a 17% increase Ball State University suspends its Doctorate of Nursing over last year. Along with 240 returning students, total Practice program due to low enrollment. There are at least undergraduate campus enrollment of 440 is the largest since one dozen other DNP programs in Indiana. 1969. The school also enrolls 350 online students and 216 ! graduate students. Valparaiso University’s College of Engineering, ranked as one of the top 15 undergraduate engineering programs in the ! Taylor University welcomes 577 new students, including nation by U.S. News & World Report , will expand its degree 538 freshmen and 39 transfers, representing the largest offerings with the development of an environmental incoming class in school history. engineering major, available to students beginning Fall 2019. ! Indiana University Bloomington is welcoming its largest- IN Construction & Facilities . . . ever class of incoming Hoosiers with a projected 8,118 ! The top capital priority for Indiana State University in the first-year students from 45 states, 36 countries, and all 92 state budget for 2019-2021 will be an $18.4 million Indiana counties. The class includes a projected 4,667 renovation of Dreiser Hall, which was built in 1950 and students from Indiana (58%). provides space for College of Arts and Science programs. ! Vincennes University sees enrollment continue to decline, ! Indiana Tech is developing plans for a new 44,000 off for a fourth consecutive year. The flagship Vincennes square-foot residence hall/retail building. The four-story, Campus has 3,444 students registered — an 11% decline from townhouse-style building will feature 100 beds on the second, last year. third, and fourth floors for students. The first floor will be Q comprised of retail space. The residence space will be geared While the Jasper Campus has stabilized the size of its toward sophomore students and will include two beds per incoming class, that campus reports an overall 13.1% decline, suite. Indiana Tech hopes to break ground in October and enrolling 469 students. have it ready for occupancy in August 2019. Q In Indianapolis, VU’s American Sign Language boasts ! The Indiana Commission for Higher Education approves steady enrollment, while the Aviation Technology Center Ball State University’s request to proceed with the New North enjoys a slight growth. Residential Neighborhood Phase II project.

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Q The new five-story residence hall will have a capacity of IN Government . . . 510 beds. The $60 million project, which will be paid for with ! More than 85% of graduates from 12 Indiana public and reserves, includes demolition of Carmichael Hall and the private colleges were satisfied or extremely satisfied with the LaFollette housing complex. Construction is scheduled to education they received, according to the Gallup-Indiana begin in May 2019. Graduate Satisfaction Survey. Other takeaways: 72% of ! surveyed graduates agree or strongly agree that they were well The State Budget Committee approves a $2.5 million prepared for life outside of college; 79% agree or strongly funding request from Vincennes University for two proposed agree their education was worth the cost; when asked “if they renovation projects that were included in the state budget, could do it all over again,” only 13% would attend a different including renovation of the Curtis G. Shake Learning institution, compared to 28% nationally; and 47% said they Resource Center, which includes significant repairs and would recommend their alma mater to family, friends, or upgrades including modernization of the facility; and colleagues, compared to 41% of college graduates nationally. renovation of the Welsh Administration Building. Built in 1952, the Welsh Administration Building to include a new ! Takeaways from the 2018 Indiana College Equity Report HVAC system, upgraded mechanical and electrical systems, from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education: enhancement of the quality of space, and improvement of technology infrastructures. Hispanic students are the least likely racial/ethnic group to enroll in college !IN Gifts & Fundraising. . . • In 2016, 52% of Hispanic students enrolled in college vs. 57% of Indiana University achieved a record $347 million in Black students, 66% of white students, and 77% of Asian students. individual philanthropic contributions during fiscal year 2018, an increase of 19% over FY17 and the fifth consecutive Black students are less likely than peers to succeed in college record fiscal year. coursework ! • In 2015, 50% of White students met all three indicators of early Indiana University alumni Jefferson Shreve (who was an success in college — no remediation, persistence to second year, and unsuccessful 2018 alumni trustee candidate) and Mary Shreve completing all credits attempted — compared to 38% of Hispanic provide significant gifts to IUPUI for the Shreve Gateway, students and 23% of Black students. For Black students, the largest which will be constructed at the corner of Michigan and West gap comes from failing to complete all credits attempted. In the streets. The 52' Shreve Gateway will echo the composition of 2015 high school cohort who entered an Indiana public college other campus buildings, providing a highly visible feature on within one year of graduation, 30% of Black students completed all one of IUPUI’s most-traveled thoroughfares. Their gifts will coursework they attempted in the first year, compared to 46% of also establish two new scholarship programs, the Shreve Study Hispanics and 57% of whites. Abroad Scholarship and the Shreve Opportunity Scholarship. 21st Century Scholars outperform the state average on nearly every measure except four-year on-time graduation rate !IN Research & Technology . . . • “The substantial gains made by 21st Century Scholars is a Indiana University set a new university record with $204.7 reminder to all of us that closing the achievement gap is possible,” million in research funding from the National Institutes of commented ICHE Commissioner Teresa Lubbers . Health during fiscal year 2018. More students are graduating on time than ever before, regardless of racial, ethnic, or socio-economic background !IN Transition . . . Dr. Eugene White will retire next year from the • Between Fall 2008 and Fall 2013, the four-year, on-time graduation presidency of Martin University, a post he’s held since 2013. rate increased by seven percentage points for blacks, 11 percentage ! points for whites, 12 percentage points for Hispanics, and 13 Marian University selects Alan J. Silva as its new executive percentage points for 21st Century Scholars. vice president and provost. He comes from St. Catherine University in Minnesota, where he held the same post. INDIANA EDUCATION INSIGHT © 2018 by Hannah News ! Service-Midwest, LLC. All rights reserved. Photocopying, John D. 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