The boundary zones for some of Indianapolis' most popular and high performing magnet schools could be narrowed next year in an attempt by district leaders to offer poor and minority students a better chance to be picked in an enrollment lottery.

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.

Chalkbeat Indiana, the Indianapolis Star and WFYI are teaming up for a joint project to examine why inequality and segregation continue in Indianapolis 60 years after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education outlawed "separate but equal" schools - and solutions that could lead to change.

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.

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.

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