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.

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.

During fall break, some students are required to attend remedial lessons in math and English to help them pass required exams during. Improving academics is vital as Arlington remains under the eye of the state yet some juniors and seniors have never taken the required math and English tests.

The Peace Learning Center is coming to Arlington Community High School to teach students how to control their emotions and resolve conflict through a peer mediation program. The help comes as the school staff prepare for a so-called "restart" after fall break to set a new tone at the Northeast side school. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle has more.

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.

Emma Donnan Elementary School is one of five new schools this year in the Indianapolis Public Schools District as the result of a state law passed last year.

The management of Indianapolis Public Schools athletics could be outsourced under a nearly $300,000, two-year contract to the current executive director of a state commission.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is making a stop at Purdue University in West Lafayette and Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis today as part of the department's sixth annual back-to-school bus tour. WFYI Public Media spoke with Duncan in advance about some local and state issues.

A new effort between Indianapolis Public Schools and education reform group The Mind Trust, would allow existing school leaders at IPS to convert their schools to autonomous schoolhouses, free from district mandates and collective bargaining for teachers.

A combination of factors are contributing to Arlington Community High School's unsettled school atmosphere as students skip class, act out and some are even suspected of stealing a teacher's car. The school administration has asked IPS to provide more than 20 additional staff to help.