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The Indiana Department of Education plans to use new and expanded assessments to determine the effectiveness of the state's early learning standards and measure student progress.

State officials said the new reports aim to increase the public’s ability to see how individual schools are doing.

Third graders are not the only ones taking the IREAD-3 - more than half of Indiana’s second graders are also taking the test.

The statewide ILEARN test will look different over the next few years as the Indiana Department of Education works to redesign the test.

Indiana has a student-to-counselor ratio of 694 to 1, well above the national average.

Hoping to achieve a 95% pass rate among Indiana students by 2027, the Department of Education said in a statement that the new funding is the state’s “largest-ever” investment in literacy.

The state administered ILEARN for the first time in 2019, but it did not test students in 2020 due to the pandemic. When the test returned in 2021, passing rates declined significantly.

This expands the type of test result MCCSC accepts to allow students to return to the classroom. Previously, only PCR nose swab tests were accepted.

Lawrence, and Brown counties joined a growing list of counties around Indiana that reached the 'red' advisory level according to the Indiana Department of Health.

A federal district court has dismissed a lawsuit against Michigan’s public health order requiring coronavirus testing for farmworkers.