Students

Anaya Jolie doesn't look nervous. She breaks away from little brothers Creed and Kale and with a ball cradled in one arm strolls up the driveway of her Granger home to greet her first student of the day. A man emerges from his vehicle with a guitar...

More than 2,000 local students are graduating from high school in the coming weeks. If this year's class is like recent ones, more than one in 10 graduates has not met one of the state graduation standards. Nonetheless, those students will be handed...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Educational goals being implemented in Michigan schools have sparked a contentious debate in Lansing, pitting Republican Gov. Rick Snyder against the Republican-led Legislature that is taking steps to halt the standards. In...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have required seat belts on school buses hopes two high-profile collisions in a span of a week that left more than 60 people injured will spur parents to urge the General...

MISHAWAKA — A teenager who filed a police report Thursday that said he was attacked by three people while he walked home from school made up the incident to cover up a fight he had with another student, police said. Referencing Mishawaka police...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up. But before all of the...

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Ball State University is investigating an atheist organization's complaint that one of the professors at the Indiana college is teaching religion rather than science. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a formal...

SOUTH BEND -- South Bend schools' special education director says steps are being taken to ensure the proper identification of black students. The district was recently cited by the state both for overidentifying black students with cognitive...

SOUTH BEND -- Following through on a promise made in March, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Monday announced the formation of a booster club to support and promote Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Joseph County and other area mentoring programs. The...

More than 50 students were injured -- including a driver who had to be airlifted to the hospital where he is in fair to serious condition -- in a crash involving multiple school buses on State Road 13 in North Webster.  It happened around 3:30 pm in the...

A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said. Some are questioning whether the injuries would have...