The new State Earn and Learn partnership between Indianapolis Public Schools, Pepper Construction and the Indiana Kentucky Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters will allow an Arsenal Technical High schooler an opportunity to earn an entry-level carpentry certification.

A local charter school is trying to find its footing after its contract to operate within Indianapolis Public Schools was not renewed. Ignite Achievement Academy is in the process of searching for a new building as it prepares to meet some ambitious student academic goals next school year.

The purpose is to bolster hiring and retention as schools enter their third year of grappling with the pandemic.

School management at a low performing school on the westside of Indianapolis will change again for a third time in six years. The Indianapolis Public Schools board voted Thursday to partner with start-up charter operator Liberty Grove Schools to run Elder Diggs School 42 next fall.

Indianapolis Public Schools has too few students for the number of buildings in the district. A dozen of those facilities in use are in poor or worse condition and it could take nearly $500 million to fix them.

Four-hundred students will need to find a new school for next year after the Indianapolis Public Schools Board unanimously voted to close Joyce Kilmer School 69.

Indiana Rep. Bob Behning is under fire for a speech that seemed to imply that a lack of “respect for learning” was to blame for low test scores among Indianapolis’ Black students.

Indianapolis Public Schools leaders are recommending the closure of Joyce Kilmer School 69 this summer following the decision by charter school partner Kindezi Academy to no longer manage the school.

Indianapolis Public Schools is one of five districts in the state selected to receive free rapid tests through a federal program, which provided an initial 7,200 tests for 40 IPS schools.

An Indianapolis police officer who was captured on video punching a high school student was sentenced Monday to 363 days probation for official misconduct.