Gayle Cosby

Racial Segregation in IPS

Given the recent attention to the topic of racial segregation in Indianapolis Public Schools, I wanted to share my own personal thoughts on the matter.  Again.  I have written a couple of blog posts previously, highlighting the same exact concerns that were put forth by the Indy Star and Chalkbeat in a recent series of…

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ALEC’s influence in Indiana education

Did you know that Indiana is so hell bent on corporate education reform models that ALEC has named a 2016 legislation package in our honor called the (drumroll please…) “Indiana Education Reform Package“: “Indiana Education Reform Package creates a voucher program, using taxpayer funds to subsidize private for-profit and religious schools and limits teachers’ rights to…

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How Charters Destabilize Public School Districts: Let Us Count the Ways

Indy, be warned: a system of unified-enrollment school choice will be here soon – – ‘The school-choice policy idea in Chicago creates a stratified, classist society,’ argues Rita Raichoudhuri, the principal of Wells High School, a neighborhood school that has struggled with declining enrollment despite improvements in the school’s dropout, graduation, and attendance rates in…

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It’s hard out here…

Sometimes, even though I have a front row seat to the antics and stupidity, I still can’t believe what I’m seeing.  The pic from the movie “Friday” pretty much sums up my thoughts on this one… I am personally disappointed in the outcome of the most recent debacle concerning the failure to report to DCS….

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