I wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star a last month regarding Dr. Eugene White, the Superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools. At the time I wrote he should be fired because of the dismal performance of the school system. Following the news this week by the Indiana Department of Education that out of the seven […]
Six of seven Indianapolis Public Schools that were on academic probation could be taken over by the state of Indiana next month. The results are in for seven IPS schools that have been on academic probation for the past five years and six of them failed to make adequate progress under state law. The list […]
Now that we’ve cleared the Indiana Black Expo hurdle, I can post about some other things that have been going on. So here is all the gossip, rumor and political innuendo fit to print. Take it for what it’s worth. The Decatur Township Small Claims Court has made the Wall Street Journal, and not for […]
Indianapolis Public Schools remained relatively flat in the latest round of ISTEP testing scores and that could mean some schools are closer to being taken over by the state. The Indiana State Department of Education has released the results this morning. ISTEP is used to measure student performance in English, Math, Social Studies and Science. […]
Tuesday at 10 a.m. the state will release ISTEP test scores for 2011. I have seen them, but they are under embargo. I have Indiana Barrister set to post the results for Indianapolis Public Schools. You might find the results surprising, then again you might not.
As I follow the public testimony regarding the possible state takeover/turnaround of several failing Indianapolis Public Schools, I am shaking my head at the people who are expressing anger and outrage and directing it toward the State. For some reason people the State is the bad guy in all this for following the law and […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard says he will ask the State to transfer control of any failing Indianapolis Public Schools it takes over this year and he will convert them into a modified version of charter schools. In his address this morning to the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee the Mayor said his plan would be a […]
This is the fifth and final installment in a series of blog posts this week regarding the possible takeover of several failing Indianapolis Public Schools by the State of Indiana. There is a debate beginning about whether the Mayor of Indianapolis, regardless of who he or she should have control of the schools. Let’s all […]
This is the fourth installment in a series of blog posts this week regarding the possible takeover of several failing Indianapolis Public Schools by the State of Indiana. This week concluded the first two of seven hearings regarding the possible takeover/turnaround of Indianapolis Public Schools that have been on academic probation for the past five […]
I got an e-mail from Dr. Eugene White today replying to the one I sent him at Tuesday night’s Department of Education hearing on the possible takeover of Broad Ripple Magnet School. As I said in the previous post, Dr. White came across as disinterested in what was going on at the hearing because he […]
