The other day, I wrote about Mayor Ballard revoking the charter of The Project School. I stated that I believe that poorly performing schools should be at risk of being closed, and I stand by that.There’s another side to the pulling of the charte…
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Ballard to Revoke School’s Charter
By joshfeatherstone on July 19, 2012 in Charter Schools, Chris Spangle, ISTEP, Mayor Ballard, Project School, School Vouchers, The Friedman Foundation, vouchers
Word has been given to The Project School, one of Indianapolis’ charter schools, that they will be be having their charter revoked. The revocation will take effect immediately; no classes will begin at the school this fall.According to an In…
Another Super Bowl?!? Don’t Buy the Spin
By joshfeatherstone on July 18, 2012 in Advance Indiana, CIB, Gary Welsh, Georgia Street, Indianapolis, Indy Star, Mayor Ballard, Mitch Daniels, Super Bowl, Super Bowl Bid, Super Bowl LII, Super Bowl XLVI
To the surprise of exactly no one, word began to get around on Tuesday that Indianapolis would be submitting a bid to host another Super Bowl. Most reports suggested that the bid would be for Super Bowl LII in 2018.During and after the completion…
City Waiting for More Riders in Dangerous Bike Lanes
The Star’s Jon Murray has an article this morning on the miles and miles of new bike lanes the city has created.”You may have heard the grumbles throughout winter as Indianapolis drivers navigated around slivers of streets marked off for miles and mile…
Renaming Georgia Street…
By joshfeatherstone on September 26, 2011 in Erika Smith, Georgia Street, Indy Star, Matthey Tully, Mayor Ballard, NFL, Super Bowl
There’s been plenty of discussion on the renaming of Georgia Street. It has been one of the heated topics currently circulating Indy politics that I have thus far been silent on. Sunday the Indy Star’s Matthew Tully and Erika Smith offered …