Indianapolis Public Schools
The public meetings will take place as the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance nears the deadline for making recommendations about the future of IPS and charter schools to the state legislature.
The sale of 148 pieces of fine art, which have been kept in storage, will fund a roughly $1 million endowment for arts education
The school board vote on Thursday marks the end of a yearslong attempt to dispose of the facility, which opened as a high school in 1968 but also served as a middle school.
Turning the Office of Racial Equity into the Office of Strategic Educational Excellence follows attacks on DEI from the Trump administration and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun.
The deal is contingent on whether the district can successfully petition the city to rezone the property for special commercial use.
Many of the pieces of art, some of which date back to the 1890s, once hung in IPS schools that are now closed.
Examples from D.C. and Denver could serve as potential solutions or cautionary tales as the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance crafts its recommendations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most of the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance’s members have worked in or for the charter sector, or have ties to the Mind Trust nonprofit that has helped create charter schools.
As a state-mandated group considers how transportation can evolve to better serve students, some schools are trying out new ideas.
While charter leaders have requested ownership of IPS buildings, supporters of traditional public schools have called for the district to charge for all services it provides to its charter partners.
The district’s two STEM middle schools will launch a STEM Scholars program and create STEM Future Centers where students can go for academic support and hands-on opportunities.