INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The State Board of Education has settled a pair of fights at the center of a larger power struggle for control of Indiana's education system.
Democratic state schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz, Republican Gov. Mike Pence and their respective supporters have spent more than a year in a variety of disputes.
The board voted Wednesday to keep rules for operation that it negotiated last year, effectively defeating an effort to shift power away from Ritz. The board also formalized a shift of its staffing from Ritz's Department of Education to Pence's new education agency.
The fighting that's been marked by a lawsuit and myriad of outbursts led U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to say Indiana faces “very deep dysfunction.''
