Carole Carlson

The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is giving $150 million to the Big Shoulders Fund over the next 10 years to funnel into academic and infrastructure improvements at 20...

Literacy is the heart of learning in the education roadmap presented Tuesday by Gary’s new superintendent Yvonne Stokes.

The Gary School Board named Yvonne Stokes, a former superintendent at Hamilton Southeastern near Indianapolis, as its first post-takeover school chief Friday.

Unlike ballots cast for political candidates, a school referendum defeat can lead to consequences that educators worry will harm students. When voters rejected property tax school referendums last November in...

The Gary/Chicago International Airport marked its 500th international airplane arrival in May, officials announced last week in a release.

The state has relaxed some guidelines on a new literacy training requirement after a teacher outcry against the new state mandate.

The Gary School Board’s state-mandated public hearing on the proposed new superintendent’s contract drew a raft of criticism from skeptical attendees, including some who expected to hear the identity of...

The Steel City Charter School in Gary was one of the nine Indiana school districts to win a federal grant to replace diesel-fueled school buses with more environmentally friendly powered...

Lake Station students will spend two school days a week at home doing remote learning when school begins in August because the district can’t afford bus transportation after voters rejected...

Working quickly to fill a trench line for a downspout, and pound shingles on a shed roof, the volunteer crew hustled to beat a Friday afternoon thunderstorm.