IPS is offering lunches at 11 school locations throughout the city and breakfast at a few places. Meals are available most days through January 3rd.

Indianapolis Public Schools granted its first renewal for an innovation network school and delayed a vote on approval for another operator.

The decision whether three Indianapolis schools under state takeover should become charter schools is creating a divide among community groups, parents, teachers, colleges, and city and state officials.

A state board will decide if three former Indianapolis Public Schools taken over by the state will become charter schools. Taylor Bennett talked with education reporter Eric Weddle about how IPS is trying to stop this from happening -- and the district's own plans for the three schools.

Indianapolis Public Schools teamed up with a local and powerful charter operator in a last-minute attempt to save one of its former high schools under state takeover from becoming a charter school managed by an organization it opposes.

None of the parents of more than 400 Emma Donnan Elementary students attended a public meeting Monday evening organized by Indianapolis Public Schools about the southside school's future.

The group, ReThink Forward Indiana, is acting on instructions from the State Board of Education to apply for charters to operate Emma Donnan Middle School, and Thomas Carr Howe and Emmerich Manual high schools.

Earlier this year, Indiana education leaders made a plan to transition three schools out of state takeover and into independent charter schools.

Indianapolis Public Schools Board voted unanimously Thursday to not renew a contract with the for-profit operator of one of its innovation schools.

Some Indianapolis Public Schools teachers plan to be among the thousands expected to rally at the Indiana Statehouse Tuesday.