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Pass or fail? That’s the question when ILEARN results drop each summer, typically applied to students, schools, and districts. Today, I’m going to look at how local education outlets covered ILEARN. I analyze who offered what detail and what gaps might remain.
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The Recess Podcast hosted Full Circle Indy for Season 3, Episode 11. We cover what we think the biggest stories of the upcoming school year will be. Listen in.
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ESSER funding will soon run out. We’ll be sailing off of the funding cliff. What kind of landing are schools in for?
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Excuse the clickbait title. Let me clear up any possible incoming misconception and be candid with you. The answer to that question is, for me, an unequivocal “no.” But for Steven Wilson, founder of the Ascend Learning charter school network and author of a forthcoming book tentatively titled The Lost Decade, the answer seems to…
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A 16-month-long investigation by education news outlet The 74 discovered a sobering truth: immigrant teens with a legal right to attend public school more often than not face refusal (not to mention prejudice and discrimination) when they try to enroll.
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The Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) board is getting a makeover come November. Four of the seven seats are up for grabs and only one race features an incumbent. Here’s a quick look at who’s running for each seat.
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Indiana is determined for federal Title IX revisions to go over like a lead balloon. State Attorney General Todd Rokita joined a lawsuit alongside attorneys general from Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia seeking to block this legislative change. What now?
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School board candidate filing opened in late May. Prospective candidates have until noon on June 20 to file for this fall’s election. Time for a refresher on what, exactly, school board members do and what the IPS board’s current goals are.
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Indiana’s private school voucher program ballooned in cost for the 2023-24 school year. But is our voucher program accomplishing the goals it set out to when it was originally established? And is this increased spending a win for school choice advocates?
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After Indy STEAM Academy had its charter revoked by the Indiana Charter School Board (ICSB), their founder Yvonne Bullock indicated an intention to “seek accreditation for Indy STEAM Academy to become a private school.” It’s time we closed the pathway for charters to switch to private schools.
