This winter routine’s getting old by now, isn’t it? Chilly day, education policy drama in the Statehouse, rinse, repeat!
My roundup of 10 or so reads for your Tuesday morning:
- Gov. Mike Pence ordered an emergency review of ISTEP and called on schools chief Glenda Ritz to cut the test’s length from about 12 hours to 6 just weeks before the annual test is set to be given to schoolchildren. (IndyStar) Who’s to blame for this latest debacle? (Tom LoBianco)
- Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly backed HB 1609 to remove Ritz, a Democrat, as the chair of the state education board. (Chalkbeat)
- So that’s where all the snow went: Boston, rest of New England socked with another 20+ inches of snow. (USA Today)
- IMPD had to call for reinforcements Saturday as teens swarmed downtown Indy, with 20 banned from Circle Centre. (Fox59)
- “No relief” for enrollment slump at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, other law schools. (IBJ)
- Test tube flights, anyone? Science-themed distillery The Broken Beaker is coming to Mass Ave. (IndyStar)
- A new set of search tools called Memex, developed by DARPA, peers into the “deep Web” to reveal illegal activity. (Scientific American)
- No Big Bang? A new quantum equation predicts the universe has no beginning. (Phys.org)
- Kanye West was not totally wrong — Beck’s Grammy for Album of the Year missed the mark, says David Lindquist. (IndyStar)
- Carmel’s Samantha Steffen was among the women sent home on Monday night’s episode of “The Bachelor,” prompting legions of the show’s audience to ask of the screen-time-deprived contestant, “Who’s Samantha?” (People)
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