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…
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 Roof, IPS board president last year, was denied the opportunity to interview for a board vacancy. My thoughts…
Disclaimer: if the thought of having bold conversations about race issues is a turn-off, then read no further. If you are sensitive or thin skinned, then this article may not be for you…because my intent is not to be offensive. The Indianapolis community needs to have broad, fearless conversations about race…and in order to figure out where to…
There is an IPS ad-hoc committee meeting to discuss ‘autonomy’ Friday, July 3rd, 1pm, in the board room.
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…
I’m inviting my readers to an imaginary place where Gayle gets to draw some real-life comparisons and entertain some fantastical thoughts, most of which start with the word Imagine. These are in direct response to our board meeting last week – the highlights of which are a $3 million dollar CASH price tag for the…
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…
SO… Here it is, after much prompting from others, and admittedly, some procrastination on my part. A blog. From your local school board member. 🙂 Why? Let’s suffice it to say that if I felt that you were getting the whole truth and nothing but – well, then…this blog wouldn’t be neccesary, would it? My…
