Indiana Officials React to Teacher Injury Report, McCormick Wants Indiana to Legalize Cannabis, Addressing the Pandemic's Disruptions to Student Learning, Data on Student Absenteeism

State education officials say improvement is needed after a new report found that Indiana teachers and school workers were injured by students on the job more than three thousand times last school year. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Jennifer McCormick wants Indiana to gradually legalize adult cannabis use. Indiana’s schools might get more time to spend federal money meant to address the pandemic’s disruptions to student learning. Indiana schools have new, real-time data on student absenteeism.