City leaders will officially announce Wednesday morning that Irvington Preparatory School will occupy the children's home,
which closed in June of last year. The school has signed a 15-year lease with the city.
The Indiana Connections Academy Virtual Pilot School, financed with state education money and allowing students to work from
home, will serve about 280 children from around the state.
An Arkansas-based charity, formed by Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton, will run a competition to award grants to five community
organizations that want to start charter schools.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is calling for a new law that would force public school districts to transfer unused buildings
to charter school startups looking for space.
Newsweek's list of top high schools, released Monday, ranks more than 1,600 schools, including 28 in Indiana.
Indianapolis-based Christel House is brokering sales of in-room coffee to resorts around the country, taking a 10-percent
royalty to do so. The coffee is roasted by Indianapolis-based Copper Moon Coffee Co. and packaged in red and green bags decorated
with drawings by students at Christel House’s schools.
Concerns about separation of church and state have prompted a national watchdog group to express reservations.
The City-County Council gave its official blessing to two Catholic schools in poor neighborhoods converting into secular charters;
they will receive new names by fall.
Rural Community Academy, in Sullivan, south of Terre Haute, can enroll as many as 280 students in the 2010-11 academic year. Those students would do most of their work from home, accessing lectures and school materials via the Internet.
Mayor’s report shows smaller cash reserves for many schools, but one charter operator blames late government payments.
Indiana application for competitive grants includes aggressive proposals that could force out inefficient teachers and convert
struggling schools to charter schools.
State teachers union’s recommended approach differs sharply from spending cuts and salary freezes recommended by the Indiana
Board of Education.
Plans for residential development on the site stalled as the housing market plummeted and recession set in.
The Hoosier Academies will start up the state’s first virtual charter program later this month, the Indiana Department of Education announced today. The state Legislature has promised to pay 80 percent of tuition for as many as 200 students, in first through fifth grades, to enroll with Hoosier Academies but take all their courses over […]
Hoosier Academies is the leading candidate to operate a controversial virtual charter school pilot program authorized last
month by the Legislature.
Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction stresses reading, math and competition.
The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit that supports education reform, is sponsoring an art show March 6 at the Harrison Center for the Arts.
Christel House Academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, with classes starting in the 2010-2011 school year.
Fall Creek Academy is among a growing number of high schools that enroll their students to take classes at colleges, earning
credit toward both a high school and a college degree.
A state-funded study of Indiana’s charter schools has found that “no practical difference” exists between the alternative
schools and traditional public schools.
