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Three bills could have wide-ranging impacts on how property tax revenue is used to fund public schools across Indiana. We dig into the particulars of each and how they might impact our educational landscape moving forward.
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Across ten pint-sized pages, House Bill 1501 proposes to 1) Establish a three-year “centralized school facilities pilot program,” and 2) Establish a three-year “student transportation pilot program.” It also creates a mechanism by which these pilot programs can be made permanent after the initial three years. Today, we dive deep into the potential impact of…
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Indiana has a new retention law on the books that says if your third grade doesn’t pass IREAD this spring, they may get retained. Here’s everything you need to know about as a parent about the law and what your school should be communicating with you.
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The recently-proposed HB 1136 put a spotlight on public school enrollment trends, both in Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) and across the state. Today, we unpack enrollment for IPS, local charter schools, and all the other districts around Marion County. Is public school enrollment declining everywhere, or just in IPS?
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Will the newly-elected administration really eliminate the federal DOE? Let’s assume they do. What happens in Indiana as a result? Better yet, what happens to your neighborhood public school?
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Earlier this month, Indiana governor-elect Mike Braun released his “Freedom and Opportunity For Every Hoosier” 2025 policy agenda. It offers five priority areas that I’ll broadly define as tax relief, government efficiency, education, healthcare, and overall quality of life. This is an education blog, after all, so for now I’m going to unpack just the…
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Broad Ripple Middle School (BRMS) is back in the news these past few weeks. We did a deep dive into the problems families and staff presented to the IPS board some months back. Today, under new leadership, many of those problems have been alleviated. But recent reporting also indicates hundreds of students didn’t stick around…
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With Thanksgiving Break around the corner and Indiana’s first dusting of snow surely imminent, it may feel an odd time to bring up summer. But the quiet fact is that Indianapolis has been spearheading a summer school revolution over the past few years. And this revolution is spreading to all corners of the Hoosier state.
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The recent election was consequential for all kinds of reasons on the state and national levels. There’s no dearth of reactions to these results and what they mean. But local elections matter too, particularly outcomes related to school boards across Marion County and the surrounding suburbs. Today, we round up results from IPS to Marion…
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“And how are the children?” It’s a common greeting of the Masai tribe in Africa. This was the second thing I thought of Wednesday morning as I scrolled through election results on my phone. The first? The morning following the 2016 election when I walked into my 8th grade homeroom to greet my class of…
