Nearly 18 months after the State Board of Education brought in new management for five schools with low test scores, the same body Wednesday voted to hand oversight of four of those schools to the office of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.
When Indiana passed its charter school law in 2001, it was seen as an alternative to state intervention in struggling school systems.
Sen. Dennis Kruse wants to beef up Indiana’s “parent trigger” law, empowering parents and teachers to intervene in struggling schools.
After Tony Bennett’s team identified more than 280 struggling schools, it now falls to Glenda Ritz to help them.
Spencer Lloyd, one of a handful of teachers left at Manual High School after control of the building transfered to turnaround operator Charter Schools USA, called it the $64 million question: How many students would show up for class this semester at four IPS takeover schools? We’re about to get an answer. The Indiana Department [...]
From Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Brandon Smith. Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett says he wants to see the General Assembly address state intervention on a broader, district-wide level — and he wants that discussion to take place as soon as possible. “It’s not in the state’s best interest to operate schools,” he says. “Schools are [...]
In two weeks Indiana schools will have to take stock of how many students have enrolled for the 2012-13 school year. That number becomes very important in January, when school corporations see their payments from the state increased or decreased based on changing enrollment.
Can a tucked-in shirt or a handshake turn around a failing school? According to a series of articles this weekend in the Indianapolis Star, the new operators of four struggling Indianapolis Public Schools are using structure and discipline to communicate their expectations to students. Scott Elliott writes that at Arlington, which is now under the [...]
Enrollment at state takeover schools is even lower than turnaround operators anticipated, writes the Indianapolis Star‘s Scott Elliott: But one week into the experiment, enrollment at the three former Indianapolis Public Schools that have started — Manual, Howe Community High School and Donnan Middle School — is down significantly, by 43 percent. It would appear [...]
Five Indiana schools will open under new management after a rocky year in transition.
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