The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For August 27, 2015. (Interview With IPS Supt. Dr.Lewis Ferebee Starts At 2:44 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). In the first of a two part Afternoons with Amos Interview, Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Lewis Ferebee talked about the first four weeks of IPS’ new school year was going. Ferebee […]

In an expansive, wide-ranging Afternoons with Amos interview, Dr. Lewis Ferebee, Superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) talked about a number of critical issues facing the state’s largest school district.  This month IPS is holding meetings with parents, staff and the community on helping the district create a Strategic Plan for, in Dr. Ferebee’s […]

Despite the problems with the 2013 ISTEP tests in Indiana, African-American public school students in Indianapolis/Marion County continued to improve in the annual achievement tests conducted for third through eighth graders in Indiana’s schools. The analysis of 2013 ISTEP data by PraiseIndy.com revealed that 61.0% of city/county African-American public school students passed their grade’s benchmark […]

Afternoons with Amos ended its ninth year on AM1310 The Light and began its Tenth Season in style. The program broadcast live from Maxine’s Chicken & Waffles, the population Black-owned downtown soul food restaurant at Ohio and East Streets. Besides talking with listeners on a wide range of subjects, which has been the success of […]

On a special Afternoons with Amos, five classroom teachers discussed the joys, challenges and inspiration of being teachers in Indianapolis public schools.  Joining in the discussion was Brittany Langdon, a fifth grade teacher at KIPP Charter School; Adam Jones an English teacher at Indy Met HS; JuDonne Hemmingway, a middle school English teacher at Fall […]