May 25, 2013
J.K. WallIn the same year the Legislature passed a set of sweeping reforms to improve Indiana’s public schools, Indiana’s
eighth-graders were scoring No. 7 in the world on an international math test.
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May 25, 2013
J.K. WallFriends' competition for bragging rights lands both on Forbes' 30 Under 30 lists.
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May 11, 2013
J.K. WallThomas Carr Howe Community High School, one of four taken over by the state Department of Education, is being remade yet again.
And this time it faces a slew of competitors in the education-reform arena.
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April 30, 2013
Associated PressA legislative plan that would "pause" Indiana's adoption of a national set of reading and math education standards
has the backing of Republican Gov. Mike Pence, although many questions surround what that step would mean for the state's
classrooms.
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April 25, 2013
Associated PressIndiana legislators prepared a compromise bill Thursday that would suspend implementation of a national set of reading and
math education standards for a year while new state reviews are done.
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April 10, 2013
Associated PressIndiana's A-F grading system for individual schools would be scrapped and implementation suspended on a national set of
reading and math education standards under a bill the state Senate approved Wednesday.
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April 10, 2013
Associated PressA proposal to no longer require Indiana's local school superintendents to hold a state superintendent's or teacher's
license passed the state Senate after Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann cast her first tie-breaking vote.
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April 10, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe city will lose its controller a few months before the 2014 budget is due to be presented to the City-County Council.
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April 4, 2013
Associated PressA proposal to no longer require Indiana's local school superintendents to hold a state superintendent's or teacher's
license is advancing in the Legislature.
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March 13, 2013
J.K. WallA study by Chicago-based IFF found that 49 percent of K-12 students in Marion County are in schools that earned an A or B
last year from the Indiana Department of Education.
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March 6, 2013
Dan Human, J.K. WallAn educational group is planning to spend about $4 million to renovate an Indianapolis warehouse to open its first charter
school in what it hopes will become a statewide network.
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March 5, 2013
Associated PressAn advocacy group that supports Indiana's charter schools program said Tuesday that it's starting an advertising campaign
to fight efforts to end the state's use of national reading and math standards.
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March 2, 2013
A bill moving through the state legislature would remove the City-County Council's ability to veto mayor-sponsored charter
schools.
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February 23, 2013
Sarah HempsteadConfluence of trends, developments offer special opportunity.
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February 23, 2013
J.K. WallConcerned that a shortage of high-quality schools is fueling a loss of population in Marion County, Mayor Greg Ballard’s
administration and a series of community groups have drawn up a preliminary plan to help replicate the city’s most successful
schools.
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February 9, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinMayor Greg Ballard is nationally recognized as a rigorous charter authorizer, picky about which schools open and willing to
shut down the under-performers. But there is a cost to the city’s education work and Ballard may have to consider how
much of it can be supported by the city’s maxed-out general fund alone.
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February 6, 2013
Associated PressHouse Republican leaders toured an Indianapolis preschool Wednesday, one day before the House Education Committee takes up
a proposal to give preschool vouchers to low-income families in a small number of cases.
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February 6, 2013
Associated PressThe Indiana State Board of Education is handing authority over four troubled Indianapolis schools to the city's mayor.
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January 31, 2013
Associated PressThe mayor of Indianapolis is asking the Indiana State Board of Education to give him control of four former city schools taken
over by the state because of poor performance.
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January 12, 2013
Scott OlsonSeniors are earning their diploma while receiving a associate's degree.
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January 11, 2013
Mason King
What exactly does The Mind Trust do? What happened to its report on
remaking IPS? Do you need teaching experience to reform education? David Harris has answers.
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January 2, 2013
Associated PressTwo Republican state senators announced Wednesday they will push measures to decentralize school leadership in Indiana and
pull the state out of a national education initiative.
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December 28, 2012
IBJ StaffDemocrat Glenda Ritz pulled off a David-versus-Goliath victory to unseat Republican Tony Bennett as Indiana’s superintendent
of public instruction.
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December 11, 2012
Associated PressThe Education Department says the Warren Township school district is expected to receive about $29 million from the federal
Race to the Top competition.
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December 6, 2012
J.K. WallMayor Greg Ballard’s office has approved seven more charters—more than half as many as he approved in his previous
five years in office.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.