Here is a copy of IPS Superintendent Eugene White’s e-mail to the school board asking for permission to appeal the state’s decision regarding the district’s failing schools… We have received the results of our appeals from IDOE and they all have been denied. I am requesting that Dr. Busch add this item under new business […]

Just in.  The Indiana Department of Education has turned down an appeal by Indianapolis Public Schools regarding the status of several schools that could be taken over by the state next year.  My sources are also telling me that IPS plans to sue the state in Court over the decision. Howe, Washington, Broad Ripple and […]

Indianapolis Democratic Mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy sent out a second mailer this week.*  She continues to push education, although the Mayor has a limited role in education in the city. I did notice something in her mailer, when she talks about failing schools she is referring only to Indianapolis Public Schools, not the township, charters […]

Here is the latest Indianapolis political gossip, rumor and innuendo for your reading pleasure. Expect announcements this week from the Indiana Department of Education on recommendations concerning the six failing Indianapolis Public Schools that failed to make it off of academic probation.  Washington, Arlington, Broad Ripple, Emma Donnan, Howe and Manual are potentially on the […]

I wasn’t planning to blog again until Monday, but never let it be said a little thing like an out-of-state trial would stand in the way of me picking up lots of gossip, rumor and blatant political innuendo.  You know you all have been waiting for it, so here we go… Last week’s debt ceiling […]

I planned to take the day off from blogging but this thought came to me last night so I figured I had to post it. Indianapolis Public School Superintendent Dr. Eugene White is threatening to take the State of Indiana to court over the possibility of taking over several failing IPS schools.  White’s argument is […]

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 […]

Lots of little interesting tidbits of gossip, rumor and political innuendo to throw out there this morning,  so without further adieu… Freedom Works continues to sit on the fence when deciding whether to get into the Richard Lugar/Richard Mourdock U.S. Senate Primary, despite what’s said officially, the word is they don’t trust the local tea […]

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 […]

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 […]