Dive Brief:

• The Indiana governor and the state superintendent of public instruction are battling it out, with the superintendent suing the education board, walking out of a meeting and accusing the governor of trying to steal power.
• Glenda Ritz, the sole statewide elected Democrat, has accused Gov. Mike Pence of creating a new education agency to undermine her office.
• The new agency, the Center for Education and Career Innovation, was set up to align the state's education and workforce plans, but Ritz says it interferes with her job.

Dive Insight:

The governor wrote an op-ed piece laying out his position that creating the new agency was not a political move. The two politicians let a national education body mediate last week at a session to clarify the role and responsibilities of the education board, but that meeting did not produce much, if any, progress.