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October 29, 2015
IPS Board Votes To Close Key Learning Community school
Key Learning Community's historic run as the world's first school built on curriculum inspired by the theory of Multiple Intelligences will come to an end next spring.
Read MoreOctober 29, 2015
IPS Board Approves Plan To 'Reinvent' How Schools Operate
The Indianapolis Public Schools Board approved a framework Thursday that starts the reinvention of the district from a traditional school corporation of top-down management into a network of autonomous schools, including schools run by independent companies.
Read MoreOctober 28, 2015
IPS Delays Vote On Relocation of School 70's Arts Program
An Indianapolis Public School Board member Tuesday called for a 30-day waiting period before the district takes actions to make major changes to schools in the wake of a plan to move an arts magnet program.
Read MoreOctober 28, 2015
Indiana's Rank Continues To Rise On National NAEP Test
Indiana did as good or better than the U.S. average on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the "nation's report card," this year compared to 2013, while many states saw significant drops.
Read MoreOctober 27, 2015
Parents 'Heartbroken' By IPS Plan To Shutter Key Learning Community, Relocate School 70's Magnet Program
Some parents are opposing a fast-tracked proposal by the Indianapolis Public Schools administration to relocate a magnet program of mostly minority students from the city's Northside to a Downtown building where a long-running school would be shuttered.
Read MoreOctober 23, 2015
Education Conversation: IPS Board Considers Closing, Opening Schools In 2016
Next week the Indianapolis Public Schools Board will vote whether to end the Key Learning Community program at a downtown school and expand the popular magnet Center for Inquiry program to a fourth school on the city's North side -- at the current School 70. If approved, this will result in major changes for School 70 and Broad Ripple High School. WFYI's Christopher Ayers talked to education reporter Eric Weddle about what all this means.
Read MoreOctober 20, 2015
IPS Board To Consider Opening 4th CFI School, Close Key Learning Community
Key Learning Academy, a Indianapolis school world-famous for being the first built on a modern psychological theory of Multiple Intelligences, appears poised to meet its end in 2016. The Indianapolis Public School Board still must vote on a recommendation to shut it down, but board members seemed to share administrators' views that Key was no longer working.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2015
Program Helping IPS Students Attend Purdue Renamed, Refocused
For 13 years, Purdue University, Indianapolis Public Schools and the Indianapolis business community have provided a pathway for low income and first-generation college-bound students at IPS to graduate and attend Purdue. But the program -- Science Bound -- has remained largely under the radar. Now how a new name and alignment with a future school could change that.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2015
School On Wheels Brings Learning To Those Who Need It
The organization has over 400 tutors in Central Indiana who help students facing homelessness.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2015
10 Indiana Schools Receive Federal Award
The 10 Indiana schools are among 285 public and 50 private schools that will be recognized in a ceremony in Washington D.C., next month.
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