In this week’s edition of the Indy Education newsletter, read about a student-led nonprofit working to make seniors feel less lonely.

Ahead of the looming possibility of large budget cuts, Louisiana’s higher education leaders are stressing the importance of continuing education, and asking residents to spread that message.

Maryland had allocated roughly three-quarters of a final pot of federal money awarded to school systems amid the coronavirus pandemic ahead of a Monday deadline.

The White House is touting a pandemic-era education relief fund that exhausted 90% of available funds by today’s deadline.

A local authority is to spend more than £1.7m to improve the education inclusion “for all pupils” across a county. Essex County Council said the cash would be used over the next three years to “improve educational outcomes and experiences for pupils”.

The moral rot is, and always has been, particularly acute at Ivy League or otherwise putatively “elite” institutions. The pro-Hamas “protests” that have rocked university campuses since Oct. 7 are indicative of the fact that the jihadi anarchy on display at Harvard Yard hasn’t been replicated at red-state public schools such as Alabama or Ole Miss.

Arkansas High School, in Texarkana, and Hope High School both collaborate with UAHT to offer collegiate academies, and they rank first and second for students graduating with their high school diploma and Associate of Arts degree simultaneously, according to the Arkansas Department of Education.

Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has turned his money and focus toward a very personal new project: DyslexicU, the first free online university for dyslexic thinkers. The inspiration? Branson himself has lived with dyslexia.

From the column: “As states go off to do their own thing, which is only sometimes in the best interest of students, there would be no way to measure the effects.”

“Business proficiencies are important to students in nearly every aspect of their lives, their futures, and their careers.”