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(non)democracy at work
Dear constituent, On May 28th, 2015, in a live-television broadcast it was announced that the AUTONOMY issue, which the entire board had previously had a Sunday afternoon meeting about (dubbed weird, unusual, and a travesty by the media) was going to be DEFINED by a newly-created ad-hoc commitee which only consisted of two board members, two…
How Sweet It IS…to be Phalen Leadership Academy
2015-4-28 IPS_PLA_1321 Agreement I just had to make you all aware of the sweetest deal in the history of sweet deals. Next week IPS will be briefed (Tuesday night at 6pm) and vote (Thursday night at 6pm) on a contract with Phalen Academy to take over the operations of school 103, on Indy’s far east…
How I got here: the sun in my eyes
The 2012 campaign proved to be a pivotal turning point in the history of Indianapolis school board elections. As my good friend John Harris Loflin delineates in his guest blog post, pre-2012 IPS elections typically raised a couple thousand dollars at best. The total raised in 2012 for all candidates was over a hundred times that….
Myth vs. Fact: The Mass Insight deal
Tonight the vote went down (6 – 1 [ME]) to approve the contract with Mass Insight to create a “Transformation Zone” over several years, starting with the westside of the district (GW and Northwest and feeder elementary schools). I raised several concerns at Tuesday’s briefing about specific language in the Scope of Work document, which…