Innovation schools
The schools as a whole show mixed results on tests such as the state’s ILEARN and IREAD exams.
While test results for K-8 Innovation Network schools haven’t significantly boosted the district’s academic performance, Innovation high schools show better results.
Edison School of the Arts terminated Nathan Tuttle last year after allegations that he had said a racial slur to a student. He later filed a wrongful termination suit.
The updated application process grew out of a board resolution affirming its desire to collaborate with schools of all kinds, including charters.
The school board voted 7-0 on Thursday to approve the Innovation agreement with Believe Circle City High School.
The resolution calls for ‘greater coherence, clarity, and collaboration’ between all public schools.
The 2025 IPS Teachers of the Year are Ashley Hogan of Emma Donnan Elementary and Middle School and Linda Thomson of Shortridge High School.
The announcement expands a pilot program that grants automatic admission to seniors with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
Although the district’s student population fell, the fact that it dipped by less than 1% after six schools closed might be a hopeful sign for the district.
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for his alleged role in the shooting.
The student was walking home from school when he was shot around 1 p.m Friday. He is the fourth teenager to be shot and killed in the past two weeks in the city.
Thrival began as a one-year program within Indianapolis Public Schools in 2017, but expanded to a four-year high school in 2020.
Herron Prep Academy is one of three schools in the Herron Classical Schools charter network, all three of which are part of the Indianapolis Public Schools autonomous Innovation Network.
Indianapolis Public Schools is the only Marion County district to have exceeded 2019 rates for the share of students proficient in both English and math.
Nathan Tuttle says the school discriminated against him as a gay man with a Black child.
Hope Academyis celebrating its 17th graduating class since opening in 2006 as the state’s first recovery high school.
Republicans are seeking funding parity for charter schools, which cannot raise their own property tax revenue. But some worry the move would come at the expense of traditional public schools.
Since IPS created ‘restart’ schools in 2015, the district has replaced two charter operators and a third school has closed.
Indianapolis Public Schools heads into winter break without consensus on an operating referendum that must be certified for the ballot by Feb. 17.
Decatur High Ability Academy’s status as an innovation school will allow it to accept students who live outside of the district.