Indianapolis Public Schools
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance is meeting Dec. 3 to start narrowing down recommendations for changing who runs schools.
The 4 governance options unveiled at the group’s recent meeting range from a fully elected IPS school board to a fully appointed one.
Of the options that the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance could recommend, 3 of the 4 would shift power away from the current elected school board.
Proposed governance changes from the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance range from an elected IPS board that oversees both district and charter schools to an IPS board fully appointed by the mayor.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance has presented a slew of potential solutions for how to share school transportation and buildings. But a larger question looms: Who should govern charter and district schools?
Board members have floated the idea as a potential way to right-size the district, but have stressed they would not act on it without community input.
The new 2025-27 teacher contract bumps the minimum starting salary to $54,800.
Increased mayoral control over Indianapolis Public Schools and the city’s charters could mirror how schools are run in New York City and Washington, D.C. But would it work smoothly with Unigov?
The teacher contract up for vote this week offers a minimum increase of $1,510 in year one and $1,010 in year two.
As the ILEA considers big changes to Indianapolis education, supporters of both charters and traditional public schools have indicated support for a universal school rating system.
The lawsuit claims that district policies restricting information and access from federal immigration authorities violate state law.
The public meetings will take place as the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance nears the deadline for making recommendations about the future of IPS and charter schools to the state legislature.
The sale of 148 pieces of fine art, which have been kept in storage, will fund a roughly $1 million endowment for arts education
The school board vote on Thursday marks the end of a yearslong attempt to dispose of the facility, which opened as a high school in 1968 but also served as a middle school.
Turning the Office of Racial Equity into the Office of Strategic Educational Excellence follows attacks on DEI from the Trump administration and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun.
The deal is contingent on whether the district can successfully petition the city to rezone the property for special commercial use.
Many of the pieces of art, some of which date back to the 1890s, once hung in IPS schools that are now closed.
Examples from D.C. and Denver could serve as potential solutions or cautionary tales as the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance crafts its recommendations.
The requests from the IPS school board include retaining an elected board, a moratorium on new schools, and a rejection of a future all-charter school system.
The vote to make the school on the near eastside available to charters for $1 comes as a state-mandated group examines how IPS and charter schools can use facilities more efficiently.