What exactly school autonomy will look like for IPS is not yet clear. A plan isn't expected to be presented to the school board until this fall. But the fact that the board is insistent that it will happen could mean big changes for the district.

The new principal at a pivotal elementary in Indianapolis Public Schools been replaced a month before classes begin. Marlon Llewellyn was set to lead the first IPS "Innovation" school -- the former Francis Scott Key Elementary School 103 on the Far East Side -- but instead Agnes Aleobua, former a principal at Fall Creek Academy, will take the role.

The Indianapolis Public School Board on Thursday approved hiring a new "talent officer," with a $125,000 salary, to help Superintendent Lewis Ferebee solve the district's latest staffing challenge: filling 300 vacant teacher and staff positions by the first day of school on Aug. 3.

Indianapolis Public Schools is selling six vacant properties as part of an effort to reduce maintenance costs and raise money.

For our 50 Great Teachers series, we profile Thomas Whaley. With his second-graders on Long Island, he's teaching English ... and a lot more.

The parents of Indiana Cyber Charter School students were notified Wednesday that the school will close June 30.

United Way's Bridges to Success program, which this year helped more than 9,000 students in 20 IPS schools with basic needs like tutoring, mentoring, eye exams and other services, is going away after 21-years next year. But IPS and United Way say the intention is to expand access to the same services to students in every IPS school.

The College Board won't score two of 10 test sections after a printing error on the instructions for the exam given earlier this month.

A charter school that will serve youths in the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center and students facing expulsion and other disciplinary problems was dedicated today by Mayor Greg Ballard and other city officials.

There are many roads to high school graduation but one -- a waiver from passing basic English and math exams, has drawn concern and criticism in recent years. In 2011, more than a quarter of Indianapolis Public School graduates were granted a waiver. But last school year, only 7 percent of IPS students had graduated with waivers -- a rate now slightly better than the state average. District leaders hope to chop that amount in half for the Class of 2015. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle explains on how area school districts are focusing on individual student to ensure nearly all graduate without a waiver.