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IPS B.S. wants you to post your thoughts on tonight's school board meeting. Some agenda items include...

1. Hiring Ramon Batts, who ran for the school board and lost, while teachers get laid off.
2. Taking homes via eminent domain so IPS can take away homes so School 58 can have a new parking lot, while teachers get laid off.
   
3. Hiring a new basketball coach for Broad Ripple while teachers get laid off.
4. Spending $150,000 on snow plows while teachers get laid off.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. start posting at 7:05 p.m.

Dream Come True?

There is a big rumor running around the Central Office that Eugene White is trying to get out of his contract so he can leave IPS. Can anyone confirm this, please!

Hostile Takeover

Has anyone else heard that the state has started its takeover of some IPS schools?

A New Virtual Reality?

From today's Indianapolis Star.

Indiana's second virtual charter school is taking applications for students in first through eighth grades.

Spokeswoman Pat Laystrom says Indiana Connections Academy Virtual Pilot School will serve about 280 students from around the state.Students receive personalized learning plans but do their work from home. A certified teacher will work with them in live, online classrooms and by phone.

The school also will offer extracurricular activities and electives, including online chess clubs, a student newspaper and science clubs.

The program is free and is financed with state education money.

Indiana's first virtual charter was Hoosier Academies, a combination virtual and bricks and mortar school that opened in 2008-09.

White Plays Race Card

Eugene got his evaluation today. The white school board members gave him failing marks, but most of the Black board members gave him high marks. He accused the white board member of being racist. What say you?

Are You Willing to Make the Switch?

Indianapolis (AP) - A new report says health insurance for Indiana's public schools and universities could cost at least $450 million less annually if they joined the state's plan for public employees.

But most of the savings would come through stingier health plans or higher out-of-pocket expenses for teachers, professors and other employees.

The analysis from a consulting company found that it would cost public schools and universities about $270 million to get the same level of insurance they're getting now.

The report said the state would save money by pooling more employees in its health insurance plan and through other methods.

The idea of moving public schools and universities to the state's health insurance will likely be an issue in the 2011 legislative session as lawmakers work on a new two-year state budget.

The Perfect School

We all know there is no such thing as the perfect school, but if there were three things you could do to improve IPS, what would they be. We already know we would fire Dr. White and his minions, but what would you do after that?

IPS Fireworks

What fireworks do you expect to see in the next school year? Happy Fourth of July.