Schools classified in the lowest category of performers in the state for six consecutive years can be taken over by the Indiana State Board of Education.
Currently, 17 schools fall into this category — including about half of the high schools in the struggling Indianapolis Public School Corporation.
The Board of Education is empowered to take a number of remediation efforts, including turning over administration of the school to an outside manager or charter school operator.
Indiana schools are improving — at least, if you’re judging them by the State of Indiana’s own standards.
Rupert Murdoch’s coming in to turn around a failing Indianapolis public school — at least, one of the companies he owns will. The Indiana Department of Education announced Thursday it had appointed Wireless Generation, a News Corp-owned company that helps teachers work with student-level data in the classroom, to help turn around Washington Community High [...]
EdPower is the only Indiana based company selected to take over one of the “failing” high schools in Indianapolis. Unlike the other two operators, EdPower is not a large organization, operating only two schools; the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated Academy and the Challenge Foundation Academy both in Indianapolis. The company also runs a consulting division [...]
Is the lawsuit authorized by the IPS board by a 4-3 Thursday night doomed from the start? District leaders say no — StateImpact explains why.
Six “failing” Indianapolis public schools will either face a state-run takeover or be put on a short state-held leash, we learned Thursday — as we had reported they would. Indiana state superintendent Tony Bennett announced Thursday the state’s Department of Education would bring in private operators to run Manual, Howe, and Arlington High Schools, along [...]
Gary Community Schools officials say they felt out of the loop on the Indiana Department of Education’s plans to assume management of one of its schools the state labeled as “failing,” reports our partner station Lakeshore Public Radio. Superintendent Myrtle Campbell told reporter Steve Walsh she first learned of the state’s intention to appoint private [...]
Roosevelt Career & Technical Academy in Gary is now under new management: New York-based private education firm EdisonLearning. Indiana education officials will announce their plans for six other “failing” Indianapolis public schools Thursday afternoon.
State superintendent Tony Bennett is likely to exercise his option to bring in outside groups to take over at least one of seven “failing” Indiana schools.
Indianapolis Public School leaders have been pushing back against the state Department of Education announced 2 weeks ago its intentions to take over of six of the district’s schools under Indiana school accountability laws. With final decisions on what that takeover will look like looming at the end of this month, the back-and-forth between state [...]
The Indiana Department of Education is giving about $8.5 million in federal Title 1 funding to the following Indiana schools. Bailly Preparatory Academy in Gary ($1.6 million) Lew Wallace Sci. Tech. Eng. and Math. Academy in Gary ($1.5 million) Evans School in Evansville ($1.9 million) H.L. Harshman Medical Magnet Middle School in Indianapolis ($1.9 million) [...]
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