Tonight Indianapolis Public Schools officials will propose a plan to separate middle school grades from district high schools. The change is expected to cause the closure of at least one of eight high schools next year because enrollment levels will plummet even further at some of the district's largest buildings.

Chalkbeat Indiana, the Indianapolis Star and WFYI are teaming up for a joint project to examine why inequality and segregation continue in Indianapolis 60 years after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education outlawed "separate but equal" schools - and solutions that could lead to change.

LaTonya Kirkland and her friends were trailblazers -- part of the first year of an experiment that saw thousands of kids bused from struggling Indianapolis neighborhoods to more affluent sections of Marion County for school. The buses -- paid for by the state and Indianapolis Public Schools -- rolled from 1981 until last month, when the court order mandating the busing expired. Now, 35 years later, it's not clear what the program achieved.

District officials defend School 84 as a critical piece of a plan to keep affluent whites from leaving IPS, a problem faced by urban districts across the United States.

Indianapolis Public School leaders respond to a series on school segregation, "Divided Schools," by Chalkbeat Indiana, The Indy Star and WFYI.

Can a decades-long investment by the Glick Family stabilize one of the city's toughest neighborhoods?

The state Board of Education has scheduled five public hearings for schools in Indianapolis, Gary, East Chicago and Evansville that have been placed in the lowest category of school improvement for five straight years.

Four Indianapolis Public Schools teachers and two principals received the $25,000 Hubbard Life-Changing Teacher Award in a ceremony Wednesday at the Eiteljorg Museum. They were selected from 10 finalists for the teacher award and four finalists for the principal prize.

Prosecutors have charged two Indianapolis Public Schools employees with misdemeanor failure to report for not immediately notifying authorities of sexual abuse allegations against a former counselor.

For more than two hours Wednesday night, parents, students, educators and alumni testified in support of three Indianapolis Public Schools in the midst of turnaround efforts.