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In 2005, Indiana's charter school law was amended to allow alternative public schools to provide online programs. INVCS will deliver daily lessons to students via the Internet, guided by parents or other responsible adults and meeting all applicable state requirements. INVCS will provide students with a computer system, Internet connection, plus access to the complete K12 web-based learning program. Other materials (textbooks, workbooks, materials for science, art, music and other hands-on projects) will be shipped to the student throughout the year. Because INVCS is a public school, there is no cost to enroll for residents of Indiana.
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Lake County, the second largest county in Indiana, and home to Gary, Indiana, is Manatron's largest client in the state with more than 250,000 parcels and 200 users of its Property Tax and CAMA software. Lake was the first county in Indiana to purchase and implement Manatron's MVP Tax solution back in 2000 and has been using Manatron's CAMA solution for over 10 years. The iDox solution has now been sold to 41 counties in Indiana.
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At the millennium, Indiana had 6,080,485 inhabitants, making it the nation's fourteenth most populous state. African Americans comprised the state's largest minority group, with 8.4 percent of the total population; 87.5 percent of Hoosiers identified themselves as white. Indianapolis had a population of more than 750,000 people, but no other city other than Fort Wayne had more than 200,000 residents. Indeed, Indiana's reputation remained rooted in a small-town, Hoosier identity. Steve Tesich's portrait of town-and-gown relations in Bloomington, the subject of the coming-of-age movie Breaking Away (1979), won an Academy Award for best screenplay. Hammond resident Jean Shepherd's wry reminiscences of the 1940s served as the basis for the movie A Christmas Story (1983).
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Indiana has the honor of being the birth place of the Studebaker. The Studebaker Company began as a wagon building business. It was the first and only business to successfully move from wagons to automobiles. The company's first vehicles were electric powered. The company designed and built many cars and army vehicles until its closure sometime after WWII.
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By the Treaty of Paris of 1763 ending the French and Indian Wars, Indiana, then part of the area known as the Old Northwest, passed from French to British control. Along with the rest of the Old Northwest, Indiana was united with Canada under the Quebec Act of 1774 (see Intolerable Acts). During the American Revolution an expedition led by George Rogers Clark captured, lost, and then recaptured Vincennes from the British. By the Treaty of Paris of 1783 ending the Revolutionary War, Great Britain ceded the Old Northwest to the United States.
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ADA-Indiana has added a new page to their website to provide restaurants and bars with a one-page resource list for information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This new web page for restaurants will be updated as new information on the ADA and accessibility are made available.
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