The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, October 19, 2015. (Interview With Folks From Indy Chapter of Black Expo’s Partnership With Warren Township Schools Starts At 4:06 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Many don’t realize that Indiana Black Expo has individual chapters in a number of cities across Indiana, including here in Indianapolis.  On Afternoons […]

While thousands packed the Indiana State House protesting how the Governor and Legislature has mistreated and disrespected her and public education, Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz was in the AM 1310 The Light studio talking with the community on Afternoons with Amos in a broad and wide ranging extended interview. Her opponents have tried […]

Gordon Hendry is a member of the Indiana State Board of Education who made headlines recently when he wrote an op-ed for newspapers around the state criticizing Indiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz for much of the dysfunction between the Superintendent and the Board in the past year.  Hendry is an at-large member of the ten member […]

For eight years Dan Elsener has served as a member of the Indiana State Board of Education, representing the 7th Congressional District, which consists of most of Indianapolis/Marion County.  Last year, voters in the 7th District overwhelmingly voted for Glenda Ritz to be state school’s chief in a landslide. Ritz won with 64.3% of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: On the day that the public learned the results of the troubled 2013 ISTEP Test, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz appeared on Afternoons with Amos and discussed a wide range of educational issues. Supt. Ritz talked about the overall results of the ISTEP tests and said that despite problems, Hoosier students made […]

The Indiana Department of Education officially released their controversial A-F grades for the state’s public and private schools this morning. But Marion County’s public and charter schools didn’t fare as well as all Indiana schools under the controversial new grading system. Statewide, 40.9% of Indiana schools earned grades of “A”; 20.1% earned B’s, 20.3% earned […]