The Vigo County School Board has approved borrowing $5.4 million for an expansion of DeVaney Elementary School and energy-related projects at 15 other schools.
 

February 14, 2012  

Legislation that would require high school students in Indiana to take at least one online course is meeting resistance from some school administrators who say they can’t afford any more mandates from the state.

February 14, 2012  

Indiana is one of 10 states to receive a  waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements.
 

February 10, 2012  

“Brace yourself. Brace yourself,” Fay Pickering shouted to her students just before the school bus she was driving crossed U.S. 40 and landed in a ditch Thursday morning.
 

February 10, 2012  

President Barack Obama today will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.

February 9, 2012  

Cinda May sat with the phone to her ear listening as the auctioneer in New York City said “Holding, holding.”
 

February 9, 2012  

Indiana State University’s Hulman Center will host its sixth annual Sycamore Hoopla Friday and Saturday.
 

February 9, 2012  

When the Constitution was signed in September of 1787 and sent to the Congress that then existed under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was instructed to send that Constitution to the states to be ratified … or not.  The message to the states was clear: Accept the Constitution or reject it, but don’t try to change it.
 

February 9, 2012  

Get the scoop on the latest in prom fashions and services during Lincoln Trail College’s Prom Expo Feb. 19.

February 9, 2012  

Indiana State University is offering $1,000 scholarships for graduates of Vincennes University’s technology programs to pursue their bachelor’s degree.
 

February 9, 2012  

Our culture’s most celebrated survivalists are often men with an accent, a trusty knife, and a tagalong camera crew filming their every move. 
 

February 9, 2012  

Seniors Gary Secuskie and Taylor Mansinne were named King and Queen of the Riverton Parke Winter 2012 Homecoming.

February 9, 2012  

A former collegiate football standout and a trio known for selling humorous holiday apparel received the Indiana State University Alumni Association’s Graduate of the Last Decade Award this year.
 

February 9, 2012  

Carlos Alzugaray, who spent 40 years representing the Cuban government around the world, wishes NBC newsman Brian Williams had asked a different question during a recent Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.
 

February 9, 2012  

Lincoln Trail College will celebrate homecoming on Feb. 18.
 

February 9, 2012  

February 9, 2012  

Weeks of early-morning and after-school problem-solving sessions for about 100 Wabash Valley middle school students will culminate on Saturday in the regional MATHCOUNTS competition at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
 

February 9, 2012  

Christin Keirn wanted a challenge and she does enjoy winter. So for her, it seemed an obvious choice.

February 9, 2012  

Lincoln Trail College has released its academic honor lists for the Fall 2011 semester.

February 9, 2012  

February 9, 2012  

The Vigo County School Corp. 2011 graduation rate improved nearly 4 percentage points and surpassed the state graduation rate, according to information from the state Department of Education.

 

February 7, 2012  

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is stepping back into its past and addressing a need to advance the nation’s transportation system by educating the next generation of railroad engineers.
Chauncey Rose, an entrepreneur and builder of railroads, came to western Indiana in 1817.

February 2, 2012  

Join Mayor Duke Bennett, Indiana State University Police Chief Bill Mercier, Terre Haute and ISU Police departments, GFS Marketplace, Mix-FM, the men of Pi Kappa Alpha and the ladies of Alpha Sigma Alpha at the Fourth Annual Terre Haute Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics Indiana on Feb. 11.
 

February 2, 2012  

Taste of Home magazine has honored a Riverton Parke Jr.-Sr. High School Foods Services employee for her recipe.
 

February 2, 2012  

Financial aid professionals will be volunteering at Ivy Tech Community College in Terre Haute and 39 other Indiana sites to help college-bound students and their families open the door to financial aid during College Goal Sunday, set for 2 p.m. Feb. 12.
 

February 2, 2012  

Lincoln Trail College is flying high this spring with two aeronautics classes taught at the Robinson (Ill.) Community Airport.
 

February 2, 2012  

Harrison College, a private sector college serving 6,000 students at 12 campuses in Indiana and Ohio as well as online, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Siva Sivani Institute of Management in Hyderabad, India.
 

February 2, 2012  

Otter Creek Middle School turns 50 years old this year. In 1962, the newly formed Vigo County School Corp. opened the current Otter Creek Middle School as Otter Creek Junior High School.

February 2, 2012  

Students in Clay, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties are joining students across Indiana to launch Learn More Indiana’s 2012 Cash for College campaign this week.
Eighty percent of students who attend college receive financial aid.
 

February 2, 2012  

February 2, 2012