Scholarships for career-driven Indiana teens are growing, but lack transparency

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A look inside Indiana’s rapidly expanding but opaque Career Scholarship Accounts. The accounts pay for high schoolers to learn about everything from aviation to HVAC directly from local employers. But it’s not easy to get basic information about the program.

Virtual schooling has a checkered Indiana history. Will lawmakers soon give it a big funding boost? The proposed state budget increases funding for virtual schools, but appears to undercount the number of online students who come from low-income backgrounds. Fixing that apparent error could increase virtual school spending still further.

Education bill tracker: What bills will lawmakers pass in the second half of the legislative session? The latest updates on this year’s biggest education bills as they move through the statehouse.