AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) – A father in DeKalb County says he’s making his son stay home until the testing is over. He told NewsChannel 15 ISTEP is a flawed high stakes test that has too much money attached ...

MISHAWAKA — The way we test student progress in Indiana is often a point of controversy. The format for ISTEP is constantly changing and may soon change again. A study committee released new ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Wednesday he has “confidence in the integrity” of his State Board of Education despite an Associated Press review of documents that showed a top ...

This spring was supposed to be the final administration of Indiana's much maligned standardized test, ISTEP. Now, it looks like the test will hang around for another two years. After years of talk, ...

If a rose by any other name would smell less sweet, will ISTEP by another name be less irksome? State education officials are hoping so. State Superintendent Jennifer McCormick says the state is on ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The 23-person panel tasked with coming up with a replacement for the troubled ISTEP is still weighing its options. There is still no clear choice when it comes to the best exam ...

t’s been just nine months since Indiana lawmakers voted to get rid of the state’s hated ISTEP exam—and they’re already planning to keep it on life support. Rep. Bob Behning, the Indianapolis ...

For the second day in a row, a computer failure shut down the state's ISTEP testing. The problems were so severe that the state superintendent ordered all schools to stop testing just before noon.

ISTEP preparations are underway and this time around school corporations are hoping all the little bugs have been worked out. You probably remember last year the online system froze. Some students had ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Indiana House of ...

A committee is studying how Indiana should replace the troubled ISTEP exam.The 23-member panel held its first meeting Tuesday at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.They heard testimony from experts, ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Christie Hurt has two children who repeatedly do well on ISTEP, one earning nearly perfect scores on the state-mandated assessment. The third never passed. Hurt tossed all their ...