The Indianapolis Public Schools Board approved a districtwide plan to remove middle school students from combined middle-high schools, expand some elementary schools and create a new stand-alone middle school.

A new curriculum guide designed to accompany the new documentary Attucks: The School That Opened a City -- about the legendary high school -- aims to bring to life the story of the school that was opened by Indianapolis Public Schools in 1927.

The Mind Trust is supporting the opening of two new Indianapolis charter schools -- Riverside High School, the second campus opened by the leaders of Herron High School, and Purdue Polytechnic High School, the first high school founded by Purdue University.

A plan by Indianapolis Public Schools administration to separate middle school grades from high schools could lead to the creation of two new schools and convert the long-struggling John Marshall High School into a stand-alone middle school.

Tonight Indianapolis Public Schools officials will propose a plan to separate middle school grades from district high schools. The change is expected to cause the closure of at least one of eight high schools next year because enrollment levels will plummet even further at some of the district's largest buildings.

The city has advised more than 1,000 residents they should relocate after the EPA said the ground within the neighboring West Calumet Housing Complex had high levels of arsenic and lead.

Hope Academy in Indianapolis is one of 34 recovery high schools in the U.S. There are at least eight more being planned throughout the country.

At least one Indianapolis high school will likely be shuttered next year. That's the result of an Indianapolis Public Schools plan to remove middle school grades from six current high schools and create schools specifically for grades 6th, 7th and possibly 8th.

School choice has given birth to a new reality for public schools: with education competition, comes the need for education marketing.

Through the program, students can get as much as four years' tuition at an Indiana public university or a comparable amount to go to a private school.