March 13, 2013
Associated PressPublic and private school advocates displayed rare unity Wednesday in support of preschool for Indiana children but split
over an effort to give children school vouchers once they complete preschool.
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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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January 16, 2013
Associated PressIndiana House Speaker Brian Bosma plans to spearhead efforts to create a new statewide jobs council and give families scholarships
so children can attend preschool as part of an agenda focused on fighting Indiana's stubborn unemployment rate by closing
the state's "skills gap."
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December 18, 2011
J.K. WallBy gutting its central office, Indianapolis Public Schools could free up $188 million to provide universal preschool, to pay
key teachers more than $100,000 a year and to transform itself into a network of autonomous “opportunity” schools.
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September 30, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis has received a three-year, $700,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to renovate its
early childhood exhibit, Playscape. It is the first major gift the foundation has made in Indianapolis.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.