Charters & Choice
As a bill requiring IPS to share property tax revenue advances, members of the public debated the extent to which different types of schools should receive funding.
Brian Metcalf admitted to helping submit fraudulent invoices for services such as small-group instruction that did not take place, in exchange for payments towards personal loans, a casino, and other expenses.
Two groups want to open the first charter schools for at-risk students under a new state law.
Indiana lawmakers are advancing a bill to force the district to share property tax revenue with charter schools. While charter advocates support the change, IPS worries about creating an unsustainable system.
The planning foreshadows changes ahead for the state’s most ambitious and aggressive school turnaround model
A state panel, whose members are appointed by Gov. Bill Lee, would have more authority over charter growth.
School funding, school choice, special education, and civil rights could all be affected by the Trump administration's approach to education policy.
The idea has divided the charter movement. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the case.
The case has the potential to change long-held understandings of the line between church and state and what it means to be a public school.
The mayor’s office says it does not want to disrupt student learning. But what comes next for the Indianapolis elementary school is very uncertain.
The legislation applies to IPS and four other districts in which less than 50% of students within their borders attend schools operated by the districts.
The mayor’s Office of Education Innovation has expressed significant concerns about the school’s financial standing.
Many school waitlists are shrinking.
So-called ‘opportunity’ charter schools will be held to a different standard
Special education teachers keep leaving the profession, even as more students are being diagnosed. Efforts to attract more teachers to the field have had limited success.
Amendment 80 proposed to enshrine school choice in the Colorado Constitution.
Los resultados electorales más observados fueron los de la Enmienda 80 para agregar la elección libre de una escuela en la constitución, la cual no obtuvo suficiente apoyo.
We’re keeping an eye on school choice ballot measures, local school board races, and the top education officials in three states.
Esto es lo que haría la Enmienda 80, quién está a favor y quién está en contra.
Here’s what it would do, who’s for it, and who’s against it.