A Pike Township principal who is a national award-winning educator will launch a Spanish-language immersion public charter school in Indianapolis through The Mind Trust’s prestigious Education Entrepreneur Fellowship. Mariama Carson is the eighth recipient of the Fellowship since The Mind Trust started the program in 2008. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, Mariama Carson […]
As a school district, the Indianapolis Public Schools made gains in district performance, but fell slightly short of improving their grade from an “F” to a “D”, in data released today by the Indiana Department of Education. In the A-F performance grades approved by the State Board of Education and released by DOE, IPS received […]
CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES. CLICK HERE TO SEE GRADES FOR SPECIFIC SCHOOLS. 2013 A-F SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY GRADES FOR ALL INDIANA SCHOOLSÂ Â After delays over a scandal involving former Supt. Dr. Tony Bennett, and delays concerned the problems conducting the 2013 ISTEP tests online, the State Board of Education and the Indiana Department of Education have […]
In an exclusive interview Afternoons with Amos talked with the new Superintendent of the Lawrence Township Schools, Dr. Shawn A. Smith. Dr. Smith’s selection was officially announced Thursday, December 12th by the Lawrence Township School Board and he will assume his new duties January 1, 2014. Lawrence Township was the first district to hire an […]
It’s a school district that contains one of the top high schools in Indiana and the nation. It’s the Pike Township schools. Recently, Pike High School was honored by The Washington Post as one of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. And Newsweek Magazine/The Daily Beast honored Pike High School as one of their 2013 America’s […]
An unprecedented series of interviews with candidates for school board in six of the largest school districts in Indianapolis came to a close as seven of the nine candidates for Pike Township School Board appeared live on Afternoons with Amos. Incumbents Ricky Hence, Nancy Poore and Larry Metzler were joined by challengers David Cofer, Cherlisa […]
