Aleksandra Appleton

Aleksandra Appleton

Reporter, Chalkbeat Indiana

Aleksandra Appleton is a Reporter for Chalkbeat Indiana. She previously reported on schools in Las Vegas and Fresno, California, where she grew up. Aleks is a graduate of UC San Diego and the Columbia School of Journalism.

It will be up to states to opt in to the new program, which could help fill the gap between rising private school tuition costs and vouchers that families receive.

The money would be available to more schools to use with fewer rules about where the money would go.

Indiana is in the middle of a multi-year overhaul of reading instruction. State leaders want to see changes in math, too.

The state feels another pinch from the administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.

The state spent around $497 million on the Choice Scholarship program in 2024-25, an increase of just over $58 million from the previous year.

Indiana lawmakers did not pass legislation on mental health and school counselors this year. But schools are proceeding with the programs and looking for outside funding sources.

A credit card assigned to the former charter school official accrued tens of thousands of dollars in travel, high-end dining, and alcohol purchases. The official was terminated earlier this year.

Laws going into effect in July prohibit certain ideas about race and identity in schools. They also require schools to post sex ed material.

High school students might struggle with longer deadlines and larger assignments. Here’s how Jill Cali breaks it down for them.

A federal Teacher and School Leader grant was supposed to provide more than $5 million in bonuses over three years to Perry teachers until it was eliminated through Trump administration cuts targeting DEI.