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Heather Harris

Oct 14, 2026

10:01
Can you just explain what that is and what its job is?
10:05
Yeah, absolutely.
10:06
And I would say nationally, Indianapolis is consistently referenced and consistently recognized as a leader in the partnerships between charter schools, innovation schools and Indianapolis public schools.
10:21
It's been a tremendous amount of public accolades all around the country for some of the work that we're doing.
10:29
And I think there's right now really a lot of shifting sands that really potentially put some of those partnerships at risk.
10:37
And I think we're working through those and navigating through this new time of uncertainty, specifically related to property tax reform, making sure that as the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation goes forward, we can look at ways to share costs even more than are currently happening.
10:57
What's interesting, so the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation is a board that's been appointed by statute by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis with some delineated board structure on who can sit around that table.

8 MINS LATER

18:50
So with your role specifically as a legal advisor to these schools, what does that look like for you right now, especially with this new corporation that's coming in? What kind of, I guess, legal challenges are you facing in advising these schools?

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