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The Broad Ripple Village Association surveyed residents and local business owners about possibilities for re-using the closing Broad Ripple High School. Longtime resident and board member of the association Gary Price says the reuse needs to be community-driven. “It’d be nice to have a community element built into it. Something like a community hall or a […]
Muncie Community Schools will be paying off its 2017 debt in December after the school board voted on a fundraising plan to rearrange its debt.
Members of a State Board of Education committee tasked with proposing new ways for students to qualify for graduation began sketching their plan Tuesday.
The NAACP hopes to replicate the program on a national scale.
Three years ago School 103 on the Far Eastside was struggling, more than most city schools. Few students were learning at grade level and the state would soon consider intervention. In response, Indianapolis Public Schools Board used a new law that allows struggling schools to contract with a charter school company and run independently of district policies. The […]
State lawmakers want to figure out how to identify and help school corporations before they fall into financial distress.
Farm-to-table restaurateur Kimbal Musk, brother of Tesla founder Elon Musk, is a quarter of the way to his goal of establishing 100 “learning gardens” at Indianapolis schools to fight obesity and related health threats. “Today, kids see food either as coming from a McDonald’s box or out of plastic wrap,” Musk says. “They have no […]
19 of those districts are performing tests themselves, outside of the state program.
Indiana will receive $59.9 million in federal funds to expand charter schools over the next five years. Federal Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the award Thursday as part of a total package of approximately $514.9 million in recommended grants for eight other states, charter management organizations, non-profit organizations and state agencies.
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