Two charter schools will become part of the Indianapolis Public Schools district and get temporary access to underused buildings, including the shuttered Broad Ripple High School.

A group behind a proposed charter school that met strong opposition from the Fort Wayne Community Schools’ elected board and leaders withdrew its application to open a school in the district’s boundary.

The shuttered Broad Ripple High School could soon have students back in it. The North Campus of Purdue Polytechnic High School could relocate from its current location into the large campus just a few blocks away.

A new charter school inspired by Latin and immigrant experiences for middle and high schoolers wants to partner with Indianapolis Public Schools. The district is expected to consider it later this month, following dozens of supporters attending IPS board meetings in previous months.

Organizers for Valor Classical Academy, a proposed charter school linked to a conservative private college, have filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Superior Court against Carmel Clay Schools to settle a dispute over who can use a shuttered school building.

For the first time, the Indiana Attorney General's Office has ruled in favor of a charter school under Indianas unused buildings law, which requires public schools to sell unused buildings to charter schools for $1.

The General Assembly left a pair of bills aimed at libraries and school referendum funding with uncertain futures this week, but lawmakers are still eyeing them for next steps before session ends next month.

A start-up charter school operator could be chosen as the new manager of Elder Diggs School 42, a long struggling elementary school set to lose its current manager this summer.

Indiana school districts would be required to share future referendum funding with charter schools under a bill approved by a House committee Thursday.

The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based charter advocacy group, hopes the legislature will change the state's school bus law next year, highlighting in a new report how the requirement creates a costly burden for charter schools in particular.