Morning Bell: Purdue Trimester Plan, IPS School Board Race Endorsements

Purdue faculty seek clarity, perspective about trimester plan – “About 6,000 students enroll in summer classes now, or just 7 percent of the fall enrollment. The hope is that by 2020, enrollment would increase to 70 percent of fall enrollment with more than 20,000 students, Sands said.” Lafayette Journal and Courier

Is an IPS reform slate emerging? – “It was not at all clear whether any particular group of IPS board candidates would emerge as a ‘reform slate,’ meaning a philosophically aligned alternative to the school board’s current approach, when the candidates were first named for this race.” Get On The Bus

More States Earn As and Bs on Charter School ‘Scorecard’ for 2012 – “In moving up from an A to a B this year, Indiana (42 points) gets particularly high marks for the creation of the Indiana Charter School Board in 2011 to authorize charters at the state level, as well as for a new rule for 2012-13 that granted new charters their operating dollars at the start of the school year, instead of in January, which CER says ’caused financial strain.'” Education Week

Indiana school teams try to work some magic at Spell Bowl competition – “Instead of a single student standing in front of a microphone, it’s all the students in the round sitting at tables on stage writing their answers on a piece of paper with an adult from a competing school observing and keeping score.” Indianapolis Star