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Broad career readiness initiatives, changes to K-12 literacy curriculum and incentives for up-and-coming teachers are at the heart of multiple education bills advancing through the Indiana legislature.

A bill earmarking funding for local public health departments advanced through a Senate committee Wednesday, despite the outcry of COVID-19 misinformation and state dictatorship.

A wide-ranging bill aimed at lowering health care costs for Hoosiers received mixed reviews in committee on Tuesday, from provisions penalizing hospitals for high prices to curtailing the use of non-compete agreements.

Indiana lawmakers are trying again to pass a Republican-backed proposal to make school board elections partisan despite opposition from school board members and education advocates from across the state.

Lawmakers on Monday unanimously advanced a proposal tasking the Indiana State Department of Agriculture with creation of an inventory of farmland lost in the last decade — whether to industry, housing, renewable energy or otherwise.

Indiana ended 2022 with more than 136,000 job openings partly because hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers don’t have the skills needed to join the workforce.

The Daily Journal is excited to support another local Newspaper in Education Week and Junior Journal. Johnson County elementary school teachers are being asked to participate in this year’s Junior Journal. There are two ways to participate and the deadline to register is Jan. 31.

• First is the Design-an-Ad Contest. We encourage teachers to sign up their classrooms to design an advertisement for area businesses. Participating businesses choose one ad that will be published in the Junior Journal on March 2. The rest of the ads may be displayed at the place of business. We will select three winners with cash prizes from $15-50. Students will have two weeks to complete this project after packets are delivered Feb. 1. To register your class for the ad contest contact Chelsea Moore at [email protected] or 317-736-2730.
• Students grade six and younger can submit stories, photos and drawings on one of the following topics. Any story submissions should be 450 words or fewer and should be on one of the following topics: what students want to be when they grow up or the student’s favorite toy or game. All entries for this editorial contest should include the student’s name, school, grade and teacher. The deadline for these submissions is Feb. 6. To register for the story, photo and drawing contest contact Amy May at [email protected] or 317-736-2726.

Hoosiers convicted of felony vote fraud offenses wouldn’t be able to cast a ballot for 10 years under a bill passed 6-4 by the House Elections Committee Wednesday.

Johnson County is expected to be under a blanket of snow by Wednesday.

Hoosier families in deep poverty might be getting more help from the state government through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program if senators have their way.