Charter schools
The Chicago-based, legal-themed charter school aims to be close to Indianapolis’ business community.
The vote to make the school on the near eastside available to charters for $1 comes as a state-mandated group examines how IPS and charter schools can use facilities more efficiently.
After a major charter school rally, 2 state senators are calling for an investigation into whether schools pressured families and staff to attend.
Girls Athletic Leadership School is an all-girls charter middle school in Denver. It’s growing, while an all-girls high school and an all-boys spinoff have closed.
Parents and charter school leaders spoke about school choice, funding, and the mayoral race.
The move comes two months after the school’s contract was renewed by the Chicago Board of Education and two years after it unveiled plans for a $22 million renovation.
Charter school leaders are planning to rally on Thursday, less than two months before the mayoral election. Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner, has criticized the sector.
Declining enrollment has slowed charter growth in Denver. But Aurora Public Schools needs more schools in the growing eastern part of the district.
The pilot program, created by lawmakers earlier this year, would let independent boards oversee school facilities and transportation for all pilot participants.
Since 2018, over one-third of gun homicides involving Indianapolis youth have involved social media in some form.
Renovations to the former Forest Manor Middle School building are part of a new beginning for Andrew J. Brown Academy, which broke ties with a for-profit charter operator last year.
The resignation of the Irvington Community Schools board chair — and the vote to remove a second member from the board — follows heightened criticism from students, parents, and staff over conflicts of interest in the charter network’s search for a new CEO.
Charter schools have grown in student enrollment and political clout since coming to Indiana in 2001. Will recent changes finally push IPS into becoming an all-charter system?
The announcement ends the legal battle over a state law that requires districts to give unused school buildings to interested charter schools for the sale or lease price of $1.
Roughly 70% of students passed the state’s IREAD exam at both IPS and charter schools.
The third meeting of the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance focused on the challenges of the different building arrangements based on school type.
The ILEA must make recommendations on improving transportation and facilities across both Indianapolis Public Schools and charter schools.
The announcement to reopen the search for CEO follows concerns from staff, parents, and students that a top candidate for the position was the school board’s own chair.
As a state-mandated group considers how transportation can evolve to better serve students, some schools are trying out new ideas.
Detroit’s public schools are split between the Detroit Public Schools Community District and dozens of charter schools