The requests from the IPS school board include retaining an elected board, a moratorium on new schools, and a rejection of a future all-charter school system.
Michael O’Connor of Bose Public Affairs Group announced last week that the ILEA will split into two task forces focused on transportation and facilities.
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.
In the group’s fourth meeting to discuss transportation, traditional public school advocates called for a democratically elected school board to retain control of bus services. Others called for bus service for all schools.
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.
The Margaret McFarland Learning Academy, previously known as the district’s ROOTS program, serves students with the most intensive needs.
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.