The decline of roughly 800 students since last school year was driven almost entirely by falling middle school enrollment.
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The bill is the latest of several proposals that threaten the district’s viability.
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The schools up for renewal this week served a total of roughly 3,900 students last year and show varying levels of increased, decreased, or stagnant test results in the years immediately preceding and following the pandemic.
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The Department of Metropolitan Development quietly withdrew its offer to buy the building over the summer after determining needed improvements would make make the project a larger—and more expensive—challenge than anticipated.
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The nine-member board would be appointed by the Indianapolis mayor and oversee key aspects of schools within its boundaries, such as a transportation system and an accountability system that could be used to recommend closing inefficient or low-performing schools.
Charters within IPS borders could choose not to give control of their school buildings over to the proposed Indianapolis Public Education Corp. under a bill that advanced Thursday.
Indiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would give a new governing body power over buildings, buses and taxes for Indianapolis schools, after adding key dates for when these changes would happen.
The enrollment dips come as schools across the country experience a continual post-COVID population drop that could stem from a number of factors, including declining birth rates, stricter immigration policy, and other school options.
The district encompasses downtown, the near-east side and southern parts of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance’s recommendations would drastically change Indianapolis schools and reduce the power of the elected IPS school board.
A much-anticipated proposal that would give the Indianapolis mayor more power over schools while reducing the power of the existing elected school board has been filed at the Indiana Statehouse.
That the city’s schools sit on the cusp of radical change is the culmination of over half a century’s worth of disruptions for Indianapolis schools that opened the door for education reformers and their allies to advance their vision.
Indiana legislative leaders leaders are already thinking about how they could replicate the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance’s proposal in other parts of the state.
The new corporation would have the power to impose property taxes, which it would distribute to both charter and IPS schools.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance is scheduled to vote Wednesday night on final recommendations about the future of the city’s district and charter schools.
The proposed step came on the eve of of a scheduled Wednesday vote by the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance that could result in major changes to IPS and charter schools.
The lawsuit claims that district policies supporting undocumented students violate state law.
In a breakout group during the session that focused on the best structure for governing schools, supporters of both IPS and charter schools said either option could result in more bureaucracy.
The grants will support a wide range of initiatives like new student programming, teacher training, and updated STEM and performing arts spaces.
The 4 governance options unveiled at the group’s recent meeting range from a fully elected IPS school board to a fully appointed one.
If done today, reducing the boundaries of Indianapolis Public Schools to only include Center Township would remove 47 district and charter schools from IPS borders.
The raises come at an increasingly precarious time for IPS, which faces a funding cliff. The district is projected to end 2026 with an estimated $44 million deficit, according to cash flow projections from September.
As the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance considers changes to the city’s education landscape, supporters of charters and traditional public schools have indicated support for a universal school-rating system.
The lawsuit alleges Indianapolis Public Schools maintains policies that violate Indiana’s anti-sanctuary statute.
