Rishawn Biddle

As an up-and-coming Chicago lawyer and politician during the 1990s, Barack Obama courted key players in the city’s black community…

INDIANAPOLIS — Barack Obama should probably send thank-you notes to Congressman Andre Carson; Carson’s Republican challenger Jon Elrod; Gary, Indiana…

School reformers across the nation thought they had scored a victory in their efforts to weed out ineffective teachers last…

As the grandson of the late Indiana congresswoman Julia Carson and the favorite of the Indianapolis political machine she so…

More than 90 percent of New Jersey’s high school freshmen graduate on time. That’s according to statistics reported by the…

Fully half of the Class of 2006 at Lew Wallace High School, in the Rust Belt city of Gary, Indiana,…

When St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay announced last month that he was looking to lure established charter school operators to…

When U.S. Representative Julia Carson’s staffers announced last week that the Indiana congresswoman was suffering from terminal lung cancer, it…

For school reform activists, anti-violence advocates and ambitious mayors throughout the nation, Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson’s Election Day defeat was…

As the battle over reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act rages on, school reformers are spending as much time…