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.

Can a decades-long investment by the Glick Family stabilize one of the city's toughest neighborhoods?

The state Board of Education has scheduled five public hearings for schools in Indianapolis, Gary, East Chicago and Evansville that have been placed in the lowest category of school improvement for five straight years.

Four Indianapolis Public Schools teachers and two principals received the $25,000 Hubbard Life-Changing Teacher Award in a ceremony Wednesday at the Eiteljorg Museum. They were selected from 10 finalists for the teacher award and four finalists for the principal prize.

Prosecutors have charged two Indianapolis Public Schools employees with misdemeanor failure to report for not immediately notifying authorities of sexual abuse allegations against a former counselor.

For more than two hours Wednesday night, parents, students, educators and alumni testified in support of three Indianapolis Public Schools in the midst of turnaround efforts.

The Indianapolis Public Schools took another step Thursday in its dramatic shift away from the traditional school district model to more collaboration with charter schools. Riverside School 44 will become Global Prep Academy, a Spanish and English immersion program. School 69 will become Kindezi Academy -- a program using online learning and classroom instruction created by the founders of Enlace Academy.

For the second year in a row, Indianapolis Public Schools expects to pay next year's bills by dipping into savings.