Adequate Yearly Progress – The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires school corporations to show annual improvement in performance or Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). This site allows you to search for the AYP results for any Indiana school corporation or individual school and provides general information for the state for the current year.

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  • The No Child Left Behind Act – No Child Left Behind is the bipartisan education reform law proposed by President George W. Bush and passed into law by Congress on January 8, 2002. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) -- the main federal law affecting education from kindergarten through high school. NCLB is built on four principles: accountability for results, more choices for parents, greater local control and flexibility, and an emphasis on doing what works based on scientific research.
     
  • Public Law 221 – Public Law 221, also known as P.L.221-1999, is Indiana’s school improvement and accountability law, which predates the federal No Child Left Behind Act. As with NCLB, P.L 221’s guiding principals are standards, assessment and accountability. Key components of P.L. 221 are school improvement plans; professional development programs and grants; achievement grants; and consequences

The Learn More Resource Center – Indiana’s Pre-K to College Connection, which supports and encourages lifelong learning for all Indiana citizens. Up-to-date materials, helpful checklists and other valuable resources and tools provide parents, students, school counselors and others with information about every aspect of education from the early years of learning through K-12 education, college and beyond. The site provides searchable information (more than 40,000 pages of resource materials) including information on: Indiana Labor Market; Career Technical and Vocational Training; Apprenticeship Training Programs; Indiana Colleges and Universities and links to colleges across the nation; Career Interest Inventories (free); Career Planning activities for students and families; more than 500 Career Profiles with job skill requirements, Indiana state and regional wages and 10-year job outlook projections; targeted information on Indiana's emerging economic development areas - life sciences, information technology, twenty-first century logistics, advanced manufacturing; Job search and interviewing tips; resume writing tools; self-employment information; and parent information on supporting student learning.

Drive of Your Life – resource provided by the Indiana Youth Institute that illustrates the importance of making a good career choice (Macromedia Flash player required).

Performance Data – site offers information on how adult students are performing in state programs.

News Releases – Latest Department news.

Indiana’s Education Roundtable - Appointed and co-chaired by the Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Indiana's Education Roundtable serves to improve education for all Hoosier students. The Roundtable is a committed group of diverse stakeholders including key leaders from K-12 and higher education, business, industry and labor, parents and community, and the Indiana General Assembly. Their purpose is to focus collectively on critical issues in education and to set and maintain a vision for educational change and student success in Indiana.

• Indiana’s P-16 Plan - The P-16 plan is a strategic framework for aligning policies, resources, and strategies across all sectors of Indiana’s education system. The framework includes 70 recommendations in 10 categories.

Indiana Commission for Higher Education - The Indiana Commission for Higher Education is a fourteen-member public body created in 1971 to define the educational missions of public colleges and universities; plan and coordinate Indiana’s state-supported system of postsecondary education; review budget requests from public institutions and the State Student Assistance Commission; and approve or disapprove for public institutions the establishment of new programs or expansion of campuses.

Department of Workforce Development - Indiana Department of Workforce Development (IDWD) manages and implements innovative employment programs for Hoosiers, unemployment insurance systems, and facilitates regional economic growth. initiatives for Indiana.