Tag: Hoosiers

State grants 300+ Hoosiers with teaching scholarships

Jul. 3—INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has awarded more than 300 scholarships in the eighth year of the Next Generation Hoosier Educators Scholarship. Selected through a competitive process based on academic achievement and additional factors, the Next GenerationHoosier Educators Scholarship provides a renewable scholarship of up to $10,000 per year (up to […]

Photo ID laws, voter suppression and Hoosiers silenced

Across the country, sundry new laws (or soon-to-be laws like Indiana House Bill 1264) threaten to make voting more difficult. Indiana, though, has had strict voter identification laws since 2005. The prominence of photo identification laws like Indiana’s are unprecedented in American history. There were no presidential elections in which states required photo identification until […]