Scott Elliott - Chalkbeat Indiana

A Wednesday candidate forum hosted by the Central Library and presented in partnership with Chalkbeat Indiana, WFYI Public Media and the Indianapolis Recorder, was the first - and possibly only - time that all ten candidates for Indianapolis School Board have come together to discuss issues facing the district.

Here's how badly Indiana's schools did on the new ISTEP: Just four of 1,500 public schools that took the 2015 exam had more kids pass than the year before.

It might not seem like Shortridge High School junior Samantha Jones learned much about writing from working on a year-long sewing project, but with the guidance of a national award-winning English teacher, maybe she did.

Al and Kathy Hubbard, Indianapolis philanthropists who have spent more than $200,000 honoring top teachers since 2013, are extending their Life-Changing Teacher Awards this year to principals and giving another $50,000 to the effort.

The Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Education already voted to close Key Learning Community School, but the parents are not ready to move on.

Key Learning Community's historic run as the world's first school built on curriculum inspired by the theory of Multiple Intelligences will come to an end next spring.

An Indianapolis Public School Board member Tuesday called for a 30-day waiting period before the district takes actions to make major changes to schools in the wake of a plan to move an arts magnet program.

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.

Indianapolis Public Schools today unveiled a three-year strategic plan to reshape the school district's management, spending and services with a goal of better academic offerings that are accessible to all students.