New enrollment system gets 3,500 applications
OneMatch is a web-based application process for IPS and 90 percent of Marion County charter schools.
OneMatch is a web-based application process for IPS and 90 percent of Marion County charter schools.
The 4.5-acre parcel just east of the Monon Trail received a high bid of $2.75 million. All of the proposals would mix commercial and housing development.
In the last three years or so, development along a roughly 20-block section of East 16th Street stretching from Pennsylvania Street east past the Monon Trail has exploded.
District leaders said that in the face of declining state and federal funding, raising property taxes is the only tool IPS has to fund teacher raises, building maintenance, busing and quality special ed programs.
The district’s website says that the operating funds would be used to raise teacher pay and special needs services. The construction funds would pay to upgrade buildings and make safety improvements.
Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis Ferebee is getting a $4,701 raise and a bonus of $28,000.
If the school board votes to restart the two schools, the current principals and teachers would be removed, and a charter operator or nonprofit will be brought in to run them.
Raises will range from $400 per year for experienced teachers to nearly $2,400 per year for teachers in their third year.
The School of Education at IUPUI is splitting from its sibling at Indiana University in Bloomington so it can lean into conversations about race and social justice that are exploding across the country.
Innovation schools are receiving higher marks in general because Indiana lawmakers decided to judge those schools by a more generous yardstick than others. But the two-tiered system could be short-lived.
Indianapolis Public Schools went on a hiring spree Thursday, selecting principals for the four high schools that will remain open next fall and a new chief of staff.
An administrator said the move was aimed at helping teachers "find the right fit,' but a union official called it "total disruption."
Julie Bakehorn, a prize-winning principal with a record of turning around schools, was replaced as head of Arsenal Technical High School this week.
Indianapolis Public Schools might pay teachers loyalty bonuses of up to $5,000 in a bid to keep educators from leaving this year as the district plans high school closings.
Indianapolis Public Schools and union leaders disagree about how it happened, but the impact is clear. The school principal will be able to fire teachers more easily—and pay them thousands of dollars more than teachers at other IPS schools.
The transition means a lot of changes are in store for the hundreds of educators who work at the schools slated to close—and those at the high schools that will launch career academies and take the influx of new students.
Indianapolis Public Schools leaders have a plan to close high schools, but some decisions are beyond their control.
Broad Ripple, Arlington and Northwest high schools are on the chopping block in a plan released Wednesday by Indianapolis Public Schools.
Indianapolis Public Schools sought to disrupt the K-12 education world two years ago by launching "innovation schools," an entirely autonomous group of schools within the district's boundaries. With eight schools up and running, what lessons are emerging?
One of Indianapolis’ most sought-after charter high schools just joined Indianapolis Public Schools—an unusual shift in a relationship that has long been competitive.