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Creating Opportunity Schools

What is an Opportunity School?

Why do we need such a bold plan for IPS?

How long would it take to transform all IPS schools into Opportunity Schools?

Would neighborhood schools be shut down?

How would parents know what's happening to their neighborhood school?

What would happen to current IPS teachers?

Would Opportunity Schools offer traditional public school services such as food service and transportation?

Would Opportunity Schools provide special education?

How would IPS decide where to locate Opportunity Schools?

Would IPS provide transportation to Opportunity Schools?

How would Opportunity School enrollment work?

What would happen to students not in an Opportunity School?

How would schools become Opportunity Schools?

Which current schools would be good enough to be Opportunity Schools?

What input would the community have in this process?

Is this plan about creating all public charter schools?

What would be the mayor's role?

What would be the role of the school board during and after this transition?

What would happen to the IPS schools that the state has singled out for chronic failure?

How would IPS get all the talented educators needed to create and manage Opportunity Schools?

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48%

48% of IPS students passed both the English and math portions of the state standardized
tests in 2012