Indianapolis Public Schools board members are set to vote Thursday on a proposal to join a common enrollment system that would allow families to use a single process to apply simultaneously to traditional public schools and potentially dozens of local charter schools.

A day before voters head to the polls Indianapolis Public School Commissioner LaNier Echols announced she has resigned. Echols is in the middle of a four-year term was not due to expire until 2018.

Here is a guide to help voters compare where IPS Board candidates stand on some of the important issues in the November Election.

Purdue University is launching a STEM-focused charter high school in Indianapolis with the goal of getting more inner-city graduates ready for college or head directly into a career, said President Mitch Daniels.

Beginning next year, low-income students and children of color will have a better chance of admission to the most sought-after magnet programs in Indianapolis Public Schools.

The boundary zones for some of Indianapolis' most popular and high performing magnet schools could be narrowed next year in an attempt by district leaders to offer poor and minority students a better chance to be picked in an enrollment lottery.

The Indianapolis Public Schools Board approved a districtwide plan to remove middle school students from combined middle-high schools, expand some elementary schools and create a new stand-alone middle school.

A new curriculum guide designed to accompany the new documentary Attucks: The School That Opened a City -- about the legendary high school -- aims to bring to life the story of the school that was opened by Indianapolis Public Schools in 1927.

The Mind Trust is supporting the opening of two new Indianapolis charter schools -- Riverside High School, the second campus opened by the leaders of Herron High School, and Purdue Polytechnic High School, the first high school founded by Purdue University.

A plan by Indianapolis Public Schools administration to separate middle school grades from high schools could lead to the creation of two new schools and convert the long-struggling John Marshall High School into a stand-alone middle school.