superintendent Dr. Larry Veracco

"It's just important that we not accept this notion that somehow in schools we can do more with less," Superintendent Dr. Larry Veracco told the Lake Central School Board Monday. "We can't do more with less. We will do less with less."

"There are some bills out there that is an attack on public education, on our teachers, on our staff," Hammond School Board President Carlotta Blake-King said during last week's meeting.

Deciding when weather conditions warrant school closures is one of the considerations school superintendents face each winter. But Lake Central Superintendent Dr. Larry Veracco says there are set criteria to guide those decisions.

A group of Northwest Indiana school superintendents shared their concerns with state senators this summer.

The Lake Central School Corporation will soon be looking at changes to its elementary school boundaries.

As lawmakers advance a reading retention bill, some local educators say the state should focus on early intervention, instead.

A local school superintendent wants districts to have flexibility when it comes to deciding whether to hold students back.

As lawmakers plan for the 2024 legislative session, school leaders are urging them to change the property tax referendum language.

Changes may be coming to the Lake Central School Board's makeup.

School districts are still trying to figure out how to follow a new state law regulating students' pronouns. House Enrolled Act 1608 requires schools to notify parents if their child asks to be called by a different name, pronoun, title or word. That presumably applies even to nicknames.