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Two Indiana Charter Schools Are Competing To Buy A Building For $1 Dylan Peers McCoy/WFYI Two charter schools are competing to buy an elementary building in South Bend under a controversial Indiana law that forces districts to sell or lease closed schools for $1. After the South Bend school board voted earlier this year to close Tarkington Elementary School, the state added it to a list of unused buildings that charter schools can buy. Two schools submitted letters of interest: Career and Success Academy of South Bend, which runs three schools in the city, and the Paramount Schools of Excell...

SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Community School Corp. could see new competition for students after its Tarkington Elementary School closes this year. Just shy of 7,400 students within South Bend district lines enrolled in charters and nonpublic schools this year, according to state data, and a new school opening in a building Tarkington’s size could mean a loss of over 300 more students and $2 million in per pupil funding. With multiple charter schools interested in the Tarkington space, that loss is looking more likely. South Bend’s Career Academy and the Indianapolis-based Param...

Parents want more action from Indianapolis Public Schools on racial equity goals Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star Replay Video A group of parents is calling on Indianapolis Public Schools to set bolder goals for students of color and move more quickly on promises to make the state’s largest school district a more equitable place for all kids to learn. Last summer, the IPS board of trustees adopted a new racial equity policy and named the ways in which the district had failed its Black and brown students in the past. It promised to do better, to be better moving forward.

A group of parents is calling on Indianapolis Public Schools to set bolder goals for students of color and move more quickly on promises to make the state’s largest school district a more equitable place for all kids to learn. Last summer, the IPS board of trustees adopted a new racial equity policy and named the ways in which the district had failed its Black and brown students in the past. It promised to do better, to be better moving forward. A group of more than a dozen parents, backed by education reform nonprofit Stand for Children Indiana, is asking the district to act on that promis...