Indianapolis Public Schools will soon start negotiations with an upstart Nearwestside charter school offering a dual language curriculum.

After three years under management of a private company, Arlington Community High School has returned to Indianapolis Public Schools. It's the first school under state intervention to transition back to its home district and school leaders are under pressure from the community and state to make it work. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle will spend a year reporting from inside the school on it successes and challenges. In this first part of the series, A New Day, he looks at just how difficult it can be to start over at a school.

After three years under management of a private company, Arlington Community High School has returned to Indianapolis Public Schools. It's the first school under state intervention to transition back to its home district and school leaders are under pressure from the community and state to make it work. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle will spend a year reporting from inside the school on it successes and challenges.

An Indianapolis Public Schools Board commissioner resigned today in order to start a nonprofit that aims to offer a single school enrollment system for city schools. Caitlin Hannon will lead Enroll Indy -- a website for parents to enroll their children in the city's traditional public, magnet and charter schools with one application.

Gov. Mike Pence promised to expand opportunities for charter schools in speech Tuesday July 28th at the Indianapolis conference of a private charter school company.

The new principal at a pivotal elementary in Indianapolis Public Schools been replaced a month before classes begin. Marlon Llewellyn was set to lead the first IPS "Innovation" school -- the former Francis Scott Key Elementary School 103 on the Far East Side -- but instead Agnes Aleobua, former a principal at Fall Creek Academy, will take the role.

Today Arlington Community High School officially becomes an Indianapolis Public School -- again -- three years since the state took control of it due to chronic failure and hired a charter school company to run it. Now, the question for many in the community is: can IPS remake Arlington into a new, successful 7-12th grade school despite its past?