Critics say the two-year, $44.5 billion Indiana state budget approved Friday tilted the scales toward voucher schools at the expense of traditional public schools.
"It s going to impact every level," Mark Sperling with IUN s School of Education said. "Starting at elementary, going up through middle and high school."
As part of the city s Crime Suppression Initiative, the East Chicago Police Department has selected the Ohio-based security company Infinite Protection Ltd.
The Indiana Department of Education released graduation rate data this week. Kouts Middle/Senior High School was the only NWI school to see 100% of seniors graduate.