The school year ends Tuesday in four Indianapolis Public Schools slated for state takeover next year. When they re-open, they’ll be run by new administrators and overhauled staffs.
State superintendent Tony Bennett said Monday he appreciates the urgency with which the companies tapped to turn around five Indiana schools are approaching their task. That said, he would have chosen different words to convey that sense of urgency.
Board members had to reconcile conflicts between important tenets of the presently-prevailing school of thought in education policy — tenets, by the way, that affect schools both inside and outside IPS’ boundaries.
Indianapolis Public Schools officials will appeal a State Board of Education decision the district says erroneously awards too much money to the management teams in charge of four takeover schools. The board allocated $13.9 to the schools based on September 2011 enrollment figures, but Superintendent Eugene White says that’s about $5 million too much. He [...]
“This is about our last time that we can do cuts and not impact programs or activities in our school district,” Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Eugene White said Friday.
Several groups who advocate for equal rights have come to the defense of an Indianapolis teenager expelled for firing a stun gun in school. The Indiana Youth Group, the Gay Straight Alliance Network and GLAAD have all expressed disappointment in Indianapolis Public School’s decision to expel 17-year-old Darnell “Dynasty” Young. Young, who has told his story [...]
Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Eugene White came within one vote of the top job in the Mobile, Alabama school district, reports Scott Elliott of the Indy Star. But after the Mobile school board ultimately opted to hire a compromise candidate (the current interim superintendent) it appears White will be staying in Indianapolis — at least [...]
If Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Eugene White is leaving, it won’t be for Greenville, S.C. Greenville’s school board decided to pass on White and appoint an in-house candidate as their next superintendent last night. White interviewed Tuesday for the top job in Mobile, Ala., where he’s a finalist. Why make for the exit now? For one [...]
Indianapolis Public Schools officials let students at the four buildings facing state-led takeovers choose where they want to go to school next year, so long as they made a decision by February. By the time decision day came, almost 1,400 of them decided to transfer to another IPS school. Nearly 1,800 others will stay put as [...]
43 percent of students currently enrolled in the four Indianapolis Public Schools slated for state takeover will transfer to another district school next year, district officials tell StateImpact.
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