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Indianapolis Public Schools offers more referendum funding for Innovation charters amid pressure

A revised revenue-sharing plan from Indianapolis Public Schools to increase the amount of funding affiliated charter schools would receive from a potential tax hike is still inadequate, charter …

Charter schools want closing buildings. Does IPS have to give them up for $1?

School pride looks a little different at Victory College Prep, a K-12 charter school on the southeast side of Indianapolis. Each month, the school’s kindergarten through sixth graders gather in the …

Bart Peterson and Teresa Lubbers: In funding, let’s treat all public-school students fairly

In Indiana, we can tell a lot about a community by looking at its schools, surely one of the greatest factors in families choosing to grow roots in a certain city or town.

Charter school group files complaints against IPS with attorney general’s office over $1 law

A statewide charter school group has filed a complaint with the state attorney general’s office against Indianapolis Public Schools alleging that the district failed to comply with a state law …

Indianapolis academy helps students recover from substance use

There is a high school in Indianapolis unlike any other in the state. In fact, there are only six other schools like it in the entire United States. Hope Academy is Indiana's only recovery high school …

IPS Board approves $410 million capital referendum, delays operating referendum vote

The Indianapolis Public Schools board of commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a one-time $410 million capital referendum on the May 2023 ballot to fund construction projects …

Petition seeks to change how charter schools are funded

The Signature School of Evansville, along with the Indiana Student Funding Alliance, is trying to get the word out about funding inequality for charter schools.

Indy charter school leaders call on IPS to share referendum money

Leaders of more than two dozen city charter schools are calling on Indianapolis Public Schools to share revenue from a property-tax levy the district proposed for next year’s ballot.

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