Indianapolis Public School leaders respond to a series on school segregation, "Divided Schools," by Chalkbeat Indiana, The Indy Star and WFYI.

At a time when many public and private schools are segregated by race and class — and even racially mixed schools are often accidents of shifting residential patterns — The Oaks was intentionally designed to include students of different races and economic classes. This story is part of "Schools Divided," a series by Chalkbeat Indiana, The Indy Star and WFYI.

District officials defend School 84 as a critical piece of a plan to keep affluent whites from leaving IPS, a problem faced by urban districts across the United States.

LaTonya Kirkland and her friends were trailblazers -- part of the first year of an experiment that saw thousands of kids bused from struggling Indianapolis neighborhoods to more affluent sections of Marion County for school. The buses -- paid for by the state and Indianapolis Public Schools -- rolled from 1981 until last month, when the court order mandating the busing expired. Now, 35 years later, it's not clear what the program achieved.

With Gov. Mike Pence high on the shortlist of potential running mates for Donald Trump (and rising), the Indiana governor’s role in the contentious state fights over education are likely to soon become national news.

The land donation follows the farmer's 2014 gift of $2 million in stock to the 1,000-student liberal-arts college.

The Indiana General Assembly created a study committee after a recent string of high-profile sexual misconduct cases across the state involving school staff.

Most of the legislation passed by the General Assembly last session goes into affect July 1. Here is a list of this year’s new laws.

According to new federal data, Indiana’s black students are suspended at four times the rate of white peers ... and are half as likely to be enrolled in gifted programs. Leveling the playing field could start with conversations about an often-taboo topic: teachers’ racial biases.

The panel met for the second time Tuesday. It has six more meetings before the December deadline to submit its redesign plan.