Morning Bell: IPS Wins Student Count Lawsuit, Ball State Charter Scores Low

Kyle Stokes / StateImpact Indiana

T.C. Howe Community High School in Indianapolis.

IPS wins lawsuit over $6 million sent to takeover schools – “A Marion County judge has found the Indiana State Board of Education improperly counted the students at four Indianapolis Public Schools taken over by the state last summer, meaning more than $6 million transferred from the district the new operators of those schools should not have been taken away.” (Here’s our explainer on the disagreement over how to count kids at those schools.) Indianapolis Star

Ball State-sponsored Indiana charter schools’ grades raise red flags – “But Hoosier charters could be much better, the study also said, if not for one barrier: Ball State University, sponsor of more than half of Indiana’s 66 charter schools, hasn’t done a good job of overseeing them.” Get On The Bus

Rewarding good behavior, monthly – “On Thursday, 370 students decorated cookies and watched a holiday movie for their monthly reward. The 20 students who couldn’t attend the event because of behavior stayed in their classrooms doing academic work, (Principal Nicole) Walker said.” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette