Lawmaker wants state to get involved earlier when schools underperform

5 February 2012, 7:12 pm

Legislation that allows the state to intervene earlier in low-performing schools failed to move out of the Indiana House this session. Yet, the House’s education leader, state Rep. Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, said he is attempting to amend the policy Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett has called critical to education reform into another bill. Under the bill, the state ...... Read More »

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