autonomy
The purpose of education: the three E’s
I have heard it said that the purpose of education in IPS should ultimately result in one of the three E’s: Enrollment Enlistment Employment I want to offer three alternative E’s for your consideration: Emancipation Enlightenment Empowerment Let us consider the differences between education in different settings. The elite private schools of Indianapolis certainly…
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There was a letter of support posted on the Indy Star website today: I’m honored and proud to be a commissioner for Indianapolis Public Schools. To me, that title carries the weight and responsibility of representing an entire community. I received over 12,000 votes in 2012. Those constituents combined with the roughly 28,000 students in…
STAND for something, fall for anything??
I came across this little gem in the Indy Star: I suppose that I am the one cautious board member that is named in this letter. So, allow me to address your concerns. For the record, as a former IPS teacher, I have seen firsthand the “failure” that you speak of, and share some of…
Who are IPS’s magnet schools supposed to attract??
As I outlined in my previous post Black Lives Matter, based on data taken directly from the Indiana Department of Education’s website, the IPS district has an overall black enrollment of 50%, a white enrollment of 20%, Hispanic enrollment of 23% (although that is technically not a race, but an ethnicity). However, certain magnet programs…
Autonomy for Automatons 101
There is an IPS ad-hoc committee meeting to discuss ‘autonomy’ Friday, July 3rd, 1pm, in the board room.
(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…