Full Circle Indy, Indianapolis, IN (2025)

08/15/2025

Want to know more about the 9 members of the ILEA? Chalkbeat Indiana produced this great write-up with more on people's backgrounds.

The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance will craft recommendations for school transportation and facilities and consider issues like whether to close schools. The city’s education landscape has become more complicated as charter schools have grown.

08/14/2025

IPS' financial future depends on a 2026 operating referendum to replace the current one that's set to expire next year. We look at why, alongside exploring the past 8 years of referendums in IPS (both passed and failed).

The financial future of IPS depends on a new operating referendum in 2026. What will it look like? Will it find support? We unpack all that and go through a timeline of how we got to this point.

08/13/2025

Statewide IREAD passing rates rebounded to match pre-pandemic rates. Much farther to go but an important step forward, especially in light of proving Indiana's deep investments in third grade literacy actually made a difference.

The piece the state did not release that I'm curious to see is just how many kids were retained this year. That's likely the bad news. But we need to know that too, hopefully sooner rather than later.

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-third-grade-reading-iread-2025-scores #

Indiana's third grade reading proficiency rose nearly five percentage points to 87.3% amid new retention rules and expanded reading instruction initiatives.

08/11/2025

IPS needs a new operating referendum in 2026 to maintain their current financial outlook. We go through a timeline of the past 8 years of IPS referendum requests to look at what might play out in 2026.

The financial future of IPS depends on a new operating referendum in 2026. What will it look like? Will it find support? We unpack all that and go through a timeline of how we got to this point.

08/09/2025

Recent meetings of the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance were a glimpse into the competing visions for the future of education in Indianapolis. Can this group craft recommendations that offer a shared path forward for traditional IPS schools, Innovation schools, and charters? Or are these competing visions irreconcilable?

Local advocacy groups are increasingly pressing the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance on how it should conduct its work and what kind of recommendations it should make. These forces reflect the…

08/09/2025

"The Indianapolis Public Schools board of commissioners is considering making changes to its public comment policy, like potentially limiting the amount of time a speaker has, depending on the number of speakers signed up."

IPS may soon shorten public comment time at meetings with large turnouts and ban proxy speakers. What other changes are on the table?

08/06/2025

A great piece that shows the different ways kids get to school in Indianapolis (and the opportunities in front of ILEA to make student transportation even more accessible).

Thousands of students start school in Indianapolis this week, but they’re getting to school in different ways. Some methods could guide how the city rethinks its public school system.

08/04/2025

Your chance to influence Indiana's new A-F school accountability system is now. Public comment remains open through most of August.

After seven years without assigning A-F grades, the state has a new proposed framework to begin grading schools again.

08/01/2025

"Fewer than 3 in 10 Marion County public school students passed Indiana’s latest ILEARN exam, underscoring wide and persistent gaps by race and district." https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/marion-county-2025-student-achievement-ilearn-gaps?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL4ikNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHs9cm4deGiXq3L9AcyRfMxg2hHF_C7_GV79MZ_1KWuh94hYJKmaj_iduFJXC_aem_wn8D8upuQ-Ca7CR9RXUKKw

Fewer than 3 in 10 Marion County students passed Indianas ILEARN exam, revealing deep racial and district-level achievement gaps.

07/31/2025

The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance's second meeting last week illuminated the shifting balance of power in Indianapolis' education landscape. We offer an update on the group's progress so far and dig into different requests that the IPS Parent Coalition and a consortium of Innovation School leaders have put in front of them so far.

Local advocacy groups are increasingly pressing the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance on how it should conduct its work and what kind of recommendations it should make. These forces reflect the…

07/29/2025

Our deep dive into 2025 ILEARN looks at this year's results in Indianapolis and across the state alongside offering 4 Takeaways for what the numbers mean on a deeper level.

ILEARN results for the 2024-25 school year just dropped. The top-line results for the state reading something like this. In reading? Stagnation. In math? Modest growth. We do a deep dive into this …

07/25/2025

Catch our ILEARN 2025 deep dive, where we unpack an overall analysis and dig into four takeaways for education across Indianapolis and the Hoosier state as a whole.

1. Charter schools continue to outperform traditional public schools
2. Innovation Schools lead the way within IPS
3. Statewide literacy investments have yet to pan out
4. The impact of the ILEARN checkpoint model remains unclear

ILEARN results for the 2024-25 school year just dropped. The top-line results for the state reading something like this. In reading? Stagnation. In math? Modest growth. We do a deep dive into this …

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