Comprehensive School Counseling Grant Recipients Announced

In conjunction with School Counseling Week, the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) yesterday announced recipients of $5 million in funding, which will support 26 school districts, charter schools and community partners to further develop and expand school counseling services and resources that improve student achievement, well-being and college and career readiness. A full list of…

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Indiana AgrAbility Farmer to Speak at 2023 AgrAbility National Training Workshop

The National AgrAbility Project, housed at Purdue University’s Breaking New Ground Resource Center, invites farmers, ranchers and agriculture professionals to the 2023 AgrAbility National Training Workshop (NTW) to address issues of disability in agriculture. The workshop will take place March 20-23 at the Centennial Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Early bird pricing ends on Feb. 17,…

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Over $24.6M from Interior Department Now Available to Create Union Jobs and Spur Economic Revitalization in Indiana

The Department of the Interior yesterday announced more than $24.6 million in fiscal year 2022 funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying union jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Indiana. Millions of Americans nationwide live less than a mile from an abandoned coal mine. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law…

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Senators Young and Kaine Lead Bipartisan Group in Introducing Bill to Formally End Gulf and Iraq Wars

Yesterday, U.S. Senators Todd Young and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and U.S. Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA-12), Chip Roy (R-TX-21), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Tom Cole (R-OK-04) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs), to formally end the Gulf and Iraq wars, and to reassert Congress’ Constitutional role…

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Indiana Voters Could Make School Board Elections Partisan Under New GOP-Backed Legislation

By Casey Smith Indiana voters could get to decide whether their local school board elections should be partisan under a new draft of Republican-backed legislation that lawmakers say would provide “more transparency” about candidates. House Bill 1428, authored by Rep. J.D. Prescott, R-Union City, seeks to add political party identifications to what are now nonpartisan…

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Daily Almanac: Feb. 9, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset: RISE: 7:44 a.m.SET: 6:12 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 60 °FLOW: 33 °F Today is…: • Chocolate Day• National Develop Alternative Vices Day• Pizza Pie Day What Happened On This Day: • 1825 After no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes in the 1824 presidential election, the House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams…

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