Amelia Pak-Harvey
Education ReporterAmelia Pak-Harvey is an education reporter for WFYI. The majority of her career has been spent covering public schools, including in Massachusetts and Las Vegas. She's a proud North Carolina native, but has since made Indiana her home with her husband, an elementary school teacher in Indianapolis Public Schools. She previously worked for the Indianapolis Star and Chalkbeat Indiana.
Contact Amelia at apak-harvey@wfyi.org and follow her on X at @AmeliaPakHarvey
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The majority of the 38 school districts seeking a property tax increase won their ballot measure on Tuesday. Budget cuts could be in store for the 12 that did not. -
The Indianapolis Public Schools superintedent expects to close schools despite passage of a referendum in the November election that will raise property taxes for the district. -
The five new candidates represent a majority of the school board, which will lose substantial power over district buildings, finances and transportation in the coming years. -
The ballot measure to generate an additional $95 million in property taxes for IPS and charter schools with about 63% of the vote. -
Enrollment for Indianapolis Public Schools dropped by 8%, while Wayne Township experienced the highest decline out of Marion County’s township districts. -
A judge struck down the part of an Indiana law that required Union School Corp. to shut down in July 2027, after lawmakers added it to a 2025 property tax bill. -
In total, the 15 candidates raised more than $257,000 so far with about 22% coming from individual contributions. -
Hunter Sesemann resigned from Washington Irving School 14 about one month after the alleged incidents against two students. -
Candidates for the Indianapolis Public Schools board discussed how to bridge the divide between traditional and charter school advocates and what to ask of state lawmakers at a WFYI and Chalkbeat Indiana forum ahead of the Nov. 3 election. -
The newly created Indianapolis Public Education Corporation is proposing a $3.2 million budget for 2027 as it prepares to carry out a state-mandated charge to oversee transportation and buildings for Indianapolis Public Schools and charter schools.
