Articles tagged as: Indianapolis Public Schools
November 18, 2015
Explaining Indianapolis Public Schools' Plan For School Autonomy
The Indianapolis Public Schools Board has approved an "innovation and autonomy framework" that will completely reshape the operations of all schools starting next year by decentralizing power. IPS Superintendent Lewis Ferebee has characterized it as "reinventing" the district.
Read MoreNovember 9, 2015
Fourth Center For Inquiry Magnet Program To Open On Northside
The Indianapolis Public Schools Board approved a plan Monday night to open a fourth Center For Inquiry magnet program in School 70 on the city's Northside.
Read MoreNovember 2, 2015
Key Learning Community Parents: IPS "Did The School Wrong"
The Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Education already voted to close Key Learning Community School, but the parents are not ready to move on.
Read MoreOctober 29, 2015
IPS Board Votes To Close Key Learning Community school
Key Learning Community's historic run as the world's first school built on curriculum inspired by the theory of Multiple Intelligences will come to an end next spring.
Read MoreOctober 29, 2015
IPS Board Approves Plan To 'Reinvent' How Schools Operate
The Indianapolis Public Schools Board approved a framework Thursday that starts the reinvention of the district from a traditional school corporation of top-down management into a network of autonomous schools, including schools run by independent companies.
Read MoreOctober 28, 2015
IPS Delays Vote On Relocation of School 70's Arts Program
An Indianapolis Public School Board member Tuesday called for a 30-day waiting period before the district takes actions to make major changes to schools in the wake of a plan to move an arts magnet program.
Read MoreOctober 27, 2015
Parents 'Heartbroken' By IPS Plan To Shutter Key Learning Community, Relocate School 70's Magnet Program
Some parents are opposing a fast-tracked proposal by the Indianapolis Public Schools administration to relocate a magnet program of mostly minority students from the city's Northside to a Downtown building where a long-running school would be shuttered.
Read MoreOctober 23, 2015
Education Conversation: IPS Board Considers Closing, Opening Schools In 2016
Next week the Indianapolis Public Schools Board will vote whether to end the Key Learning Community program at a downtown school and expand the popular magnet Center for Inquiry program to a fourth school on the city's North side -- at the current School 70. If approved, this will result in major changes for School 70 and Broad Ripple High School. WFYI's Christopher Ayers talked to education reporter Eric Weddle about what all this means.
Read MoreOctober 20, 2015
IPS Board To Consider Opening 4th CFI School, Close Key Learning Community
Key Learning Academy, a Indianapolis school world-famous for being the first built on a modern psychological theory of Multiple Intelligences, appears poised to meet its end in 2016. The Indianapolis Public School Board still must vote on a recommendation to shut it down, but board members seemed to share administrators' views that Key was no longer working.
Read MoreOctober 16, 2015
85% Of Arlington Students Ordered To Fall Break Remediation Classes Skip Out
During fall break, some students are required to attend remedial lessons in math and English to help them pass required exams during. Improving academics is vital as Arlington remains under the eye of the state yet some juniors and seniors have never taken the required math and English tests.
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