The Indianapolis Public Schools board unanimously approved a plan to overhaul the district by closing six school buildings, changing grade configurations and establishing eight middle schools. The plan will also provide, for the first time, all students in middle school with algebra and arts courses.

The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based charter advocacy group, hopes the legislature will change the state's school bus law next year, highlighting in a new report how the requirement creates a costly burden for charter schools in particular.

Students who participated in the Indy Summer Learning Labs made significant gains on math and reading tests after the five week program.

In the summer learning labs program hundreds of teachers are expected to teach students in grades 1-9 at least three hours of academics a day, in addition to other activities in the full-day program.

A Chalkbeat investigation into a middle school charter proposal found lawsuits, financial troubles and questionable academic credentials that escaped notice by city charter officials and The Mind Trust.

Additional daytime learning sites will open later this month for Marion County students whose school buildings are closed until mid-January due to the public health order.

The education reform group The Mind Trust is providing $200,000 to 11 community centers and churches to offer immediate care and oversight of e-learning for an initial 500 school-age children.

An Eastside church will be the home for a new secular public charter high school and possibly a future middle school as part of a collaboration with education reform group The Mind Trust.

Local education reform group The Mind Trust announced the sixth group of educators for its school design fellowship program.

An Indianapolis school that allowed students to study abroad in 11th grade will close for the coming school year, while leaders try to work through challenges that arose during its first year.