By SUELLEN REED Special to the Courier & Press More than 1 million students across Indiana head back to school this month to begin another year of their K-12 education. Some will be going to school for the first time, while others will be anxiously looking forward to graduating this spring.

By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind. Aug. 6--CROTHERSVILLE -- Alex McFarland is ready for a challenge. That's exactly what the eighth-grader is going to get this year at Crothersville Junior-Senior High School.

By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind. Jun. 26--CROTHERSVILLE -- School meal price increases, hirings and resignations were all approved recently when the Crothersville Community Schools Board of Trustees met.

By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind. May 19--CROTHERSVILLE -- Commitment and communication. That's what Crothersville Junior-Senior High School Principal David Schill said it will take to move the school out of its academic probation status.

Lake County has six high schools, three middle schools and an elementary school that are clearly failing schools. Those schools have been identified under Public Law 221 rules as being on probation - the worst possible grade - for three straight years. Five of those schools are in Gary.