To the First Meeting of the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance
I had the chance to speak at the first meeting of the newly formed ILEA.
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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…
Titan up… No. Really.
Tech student speaks before board and gets chastised by principal and administrator.
Tonight’s briefing session: 10-27-2015
The outcome may not have been perfect, but I think that the community’s involvement in the current agenda before the board has had some positive effect. Following the forcible removal of Larry Vaughn, a well-known community activist, the board heard several other thoughtful delegations from community members on both sides of the issue. There was…
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…
“Conversion to Innovation”
Next month, in October, we will get further information and have discussion on the biggest steps toward school ‘autonomy’ yet. District schools, next year, will be encouraged to move into an Autonomous status (principals will control their own budgets) and then to move toward Innovation School status. As an “Innovation” school the school will have obtained a…
Annie ain’t got no…interview??
Annie Roof, IPS board president last year, was denied the opportunity to interview for a board vacancy. My thoughts…
Autonomy for Automatons 101
There is an IPS ad-hoc committee meeting to discuss ‘autonomy’ Friday, July 3rd, 1pm, in the board room.
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…
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