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Today, Noemi Olivia testified on House Bill 1498 because she wants to see our state’s A-F system show which schools are doing the best job helping the lowest performing students catch up. She wants to be sure our schools are accountable to the children they serve. Watch her testimony:
After years of hold harmless removed A-F from relevance and state takeover of schools was rolled back in law, real initiatives to turn around chronically low-performing schools have halted. Too many schools are failing our children year after year, and there is no system in place that holds our public schools to account. Join advocates like […]
High-performing educators, which directly relate to school and student success, are undervalued in Indiana. We need to retain our best teachers, including those who teacher hard-to-staff positions, and ensure they receive a dramatic increase in salary. As a previous teacher, Virginia shared her story with us because understands the struggles of many Indiana teachers and […]
Zianya knows firsthand that ninth grade success equals high school success. Watch her story: With new diploma changes in Indiana, our state needs an intentional approach to focus on the success of those students in ninth grade, as that year has proven to be the most consequential indicator of success in a high school career. Ninth […]
The legislative session kicks off next week and Stand for Children Indiana will be very active at the Statehouse in 2025. Our advocates are gearing up to: If you have a free moment and want to be a part of our advocacy at the Indiana General Assembly, please sign our pledge to act here. We’ll […]
I’m going to give you more than 100 million reasons to donate to Stand for Children Indiana – but keep this message short so you can get back to spending time with your friends and family. Here goes: there are more than 24,000 students in our city who attend public schools that receive thousands of […]
Today, Noemi Olivia testified on House Bill 1498 because she wants to see our state’s A-F system show which schools are doing the best job helping the lowest performing students catch up. She wants to be sure our schools are accountable to the children they serve. Watch her testimony:
After years of hold harmless removed A-F from relevance and state takeover of schools was rolled back in law, real initiatives to turn around chronically low-performing schools have halted. Too many schools are failing our children year after year, and there is no system in place that holds our public schools to account. Join advocates like […]
High-performing educators, which directly relate to school and student success, are undervalued in Indiana. We need to retain our best teachers, including those who teacher hard-to-staff positions, and ensure they receive a dramatic increase in salary. As a previous teacher, Virginia shared her story with us because understands the struggles of many Indiana teachers and […]
Zianya knows firsthand that ninth grade success equals high school success. Watch her story: With new diploma changes in Indiana, our state needs an intentional approach to focus on the success of those students in ninth grade, as that year has proven to be the most consequential indicator of success in a high school career. Ninth […]
The legislative session kicks off next week and Stand for Children Indiana will be very active at the Statehouse in 2025. Our advocates are gearing up to: If you have a free moment and want to be a part of our advocacy at the Indiana General Assembly, please sign our pledge to act here. We’ll […]
I’m going to give you more than 100 million reasons to donate to Stand for Children Indiana – but keep this message short so you can get back to spending time with your friends and family. Here goes: there are more than 24,000 students in our city who attend public schools that receive thousands of […]
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