Growing up in Chicago you learn a few things, particularly the art of the con game. Whenever the con man tells you to look at one hand, it’s the other hand you should be paying attention to. It would behoove a lot of people to keep that in mind when dealing with Indianapolis Public Schools […]
The Indiana State Board of Education is voting today to turn over several failing Indianapolis Public Schools to private operators in an effort to improve school performance. At the time of this posting the Board has voted to turn over control of Arlington High School to Ed Power and Emma Donnan Middle School an Manual […]
The Indiana State Board of Education meets later this morning and will decide the fate of six failing Indianapolis Public Schools. As I told you last week, Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett has recommended the Arlington, Emma Donnan, Manual and Howe schools all be taken over by the state and that Broad Ripple […]
I am now fully convinced that Indianapolis Public Schools are run by idiots and overseen by a majority morons. On the day where the Indiana Department of Education announced that it was recommending the State takeover four IPS Schools and send in special teams to two other schools, the IPS Board reacts, by 4-3 votes, […]
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett is recommending the state takeover four of six failing Indianapolis Public Schools. Bennett is says the the state should take control of Manual, Howe, Arlington and Emma Donnan schools. Broad Ripple High School and George Washington will not be taken over by the State but will be […]
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 […]
When I attended Monday night’s meeting between the Indianapolis Public School board and the Indiana Department of Education I expected some fireworks between the board and Dr. Tony Bennett and his staff regarding state intervention and possible takeover of six schools that did not make it off academic probation. The meeting overall was pretty tame […]
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 […]
