The purpose is to bolster hiring and retention as schools enter their third year of grappling with the pandemic.

School management at a low performing school on the westside of Indianapolis will change again for a third time in six years. The Indianapolis Public Schools board voted Thursday to partner with start-up charter operator Liberty Grove Schools to run Elder Diggs School 42 next fall.

Indianapolis Public Schools has too few students for the number of buildings in the district. A dozen of those facilities in use are in poor or worse condition and it could take nearly $500 million to fix them.

Four-hundred students will need to find a new school for next year after the Indianapolis Public Schools Board unanimously voted to close Joyce Kilmer School 69.

Indiana Rep. Bob Behning is under fire for a speech that seemed to imply that a lack of “respect for learning” was to blame for low test scores among Indianapolis’ Black students.

Indianapolis Public Schools leaders are recommending the closure of Joyce Kilmer School 69 this summer following the decision by charter school partner Kindezi Academy to no longer manage the school.

Indianapolis Public Schools is one of five districts in the state selected to receive free rapid tests through a federal program, which provided an initial 7,200 tests for 40 IPS schools.

An Indianapolis police officer who was captured on video punching a high school student was sentenced Monday to 363 days probation for official misconduct.

A start-up charter school operator could be chosen as the new manager of Elder Diggs School 42, a long struggling elementary school set to lose its current manager this summer.

A majority of students at Indianapolis Public Schools are Black and Brown, yet teachers of color make up less than 30 percent of educators. A new initiative aims to improve the recruitment and retention of diverse teachers.