Indianapolis mayor names 9 members of IPS budget-control board

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The mayor on Tuesday announced his nine appointments to a municipal corporation that will control the Indianapolis Public Schools budget, taking that duty from the elected IPS school board members.

The naming of the Indianapolis Public Education Corp. board members came days after IPS approved a roughly $490 million operating budget for the 2026-27 school year that includes $7 million in cuts to schools.

The release noted that the Indiana legislature and Republican Gov. Mike Braun created the municipal corporation based on recommendations from the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance, a group led by Democratic Mayor Joe Hogsett that met throughout 2025 to study school sustainability.

Braun signed House Bill 1423 into law on March 4.

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