on what the city is trying to do get students that are behind in their classwork to graduate. The article says around 25% of high school students are far behind in his or her own school work.

defends the monitoring system it has after an audit said they lacked resources for a proper oversite of every school district in the state.

might be on the chopping block due to low enrollments. The article states that they have opened 9 schools that can handle 20,000 students in the high growth areas.

on the Hoosier Youth ChalleNGe Academy that helps high school dropout succeed.

The Detroit News reports in 130 students in the Utica Community Schools that are in this summer school program. Students in the few week program spent 3 hours a day Monday through Thursday improving reading, writing and math skills.

43.5 million dollar budget even with some fuzzy math. The budget is not fully disclosing all the finances for the school district. This school district earlier this year was shut out this year of moving to a four day school week.