Leadership & Management
Rangel will serve in an executive role overseeing several key programs, like tutoring initiatives.
Families say their kids get more-personalized learning in the Indiana Microschool Collaborative. Others worry about the network’s impact on students who remain in traditional public schools.
School boards make critical decisions about who leads a school district and how it manages funds. The latter responsibility carries even more weight at a time when property tax caps could pressure districts into budget cuts.
The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation will take over key aspects of schools in the city. It meets for the first time in mid-April.
School boards for IPS and charters will give up some power to the new Indianapolis Public Education Corporation, but will still retain control over key areas.
The new corporation will reshape Indianapolis education and take over key powers from school boards, including the elected Indianapolis Public Schools board.
Hasaan Rashid will fill the District 2 seat until the November election. Rashid has expressed interest in running for the position at that time.
The District 2 seat, formerly held by Gayle Cosby, represents parts of the east side of the district, including portions of the Near Eastside and the Far Eastside.
IPS has a vacant seat left by Gayle Cosby, who resigned this week amid health concerns.
The 8-1 vote on the recommendations came amid increasing public pressure to retain the power of the elected school board over district buildings and transportation.
The day before the ILEA votes on final recommendations to send to lawmakers, the mayor and superintendent announced five things they want to see in the final draft. But a plan for who oversees schools didn’t make their list.
The two proposals favored by the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance would dilute the power of the elected school board.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance could make specific recommendations for key issues like funding, transportation, and the growth of public schools — or it could let state lawmakers fill in the blanks.
Charter school leaders have expressed support for some parts of recommendations advanced by the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance.
The ILEA will select its final recommendations for changing how local public schools are run to state lawmakers in a Dec. 17 vote.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance is meeting Dec. 3 to start narrowing down recommendations for changing who runs schools.
The 4 governance options unveiled at the group’s recent meeting range from a fully elected IPS school board to a fully appointed one.
Of the options that the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance could recommend, 3 of the 4 would shift power away from the current elected school board.
Left-wing political coalitions have typically supported elected school boards. Yet as districts face new existential threats, progressive mayors are testing that and other assumptions.
Shenia Suggs has worked in the school district on the west side of Indianapolis for more than 30 years. She will take over as superintendent in January when outgoing Superintendent Jeff Butts leaves.