The district believes it has found this quality in Harbour, who was the principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C., before becoming a 2020-2022 fellow at The Mind Trust, a nonprofit charter incubator in Indianapolis. IPS administrators said participants in community meetings said they had wanted more forewarning about Ignite’s performance problems, and hoped to see experienced leadership take the helm. Ignite’s Chief of Staff Nadia Miller denied this. In a presentation to the board, IPS Chief Portfolio Officer Jamie VanDeWalle said the district had difficulty reaching out to Ignite families about plans for the school, because Ignite refused to share their contact information. The operator is slated to finish out the school year at the campus. Ignite’s leadership threatened to take legal action to fight the decision, and later claimed it hadn’t intended to renew its partnership with IPS. The IPS board voted in December to not renew a contract with Ignite Achievement Academy, which has operated School 42 since 2017, citing drops in achievement, enrollment, and attendance, as well as low staff retention. The school will drop Ignite Achievement Academy from its name on July 30, and until it has a new name will be known as Elder Diggs School 42. A proposed agreement with Liberty Grove, led by Executive Director Morrise Harbour, is scheduled to come back before the board this spring. Commissioners took no action on Thursday.
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