In an exclusive, in-depth Afternoons with Amos interview, Marcus Robinson, CEO of Tindley Schools, the operator of Arlington High School, one of the Indianapolis Public Schools takeover schools, talked frankly about why there’s been talk of Tindley no longer operating Arlington.  In nthe interview, Robinson assured the community that the school at 48th and Arlington […]

It was a rocky first year of operation for Charter Schools USA, the Florida based charter school operator that took over academic operation of three IPS schools – Manual and Howe High Schools and Emma Donnan Middle Schools.  The first months of the schools operation were rocky. With discipline and other problems.  Enrollment was below […]

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 […]

On the first day of a critical new school year for the Indianapolis Public Schools, Superintendent Dr. Eugene White came to Afternoons with Amos to talk about a wide range of issues facing the state’s largest school district.  In an exclusive extended interview, Dr. White talked about a variety of critical IPS issues from the […]