Dive Brief:

• Indiana lawmakers have left the state's teachers with an anxious summer break as much of the education plans for next year remain in limbo.  
• Teachers are still waiting to find out more about the new Indiana state standards they are expected to implement in August, as well as the remodeling of the school grading systems and the test that will replace the ISTEP.  
• While the state is looking to a hire a company to create a new test for the 2015-16 school year, changes will still have to be made to the current iteration of the ISTEP in order to reflect the incoming standard changes.  

Dive Insight:

Indiana's education system looks like a mess right now. Since it became the first state to drop the Common Core, things have been falling apart. Most likely, a lot of these issues are caused by the tight timeframe lawmakers have put the state on. New standards typically take at least two-years to create. Indiana rushed to make and implement its Common Core replacement in less than 6 months.  

The short timeframe is wearing on teachers who feel powerless.  English teacher Jacob Pactor shared the sentiments he hears from his colleagues with a local Fox affiliate: "Anxious, frustrated, annoyed. I feel like things are out of my control.”