Giving Compass' Take:

• Indianapolis has launched a targeted campaign to recruit teachers with urban education experience. The efforts are a collaboration between the city's charter schools and public school district.

• The campaign is receiving funding from a local nonprofit. Is this an example of how philanthropy can generate collaboration in education?

• The Indianapolis education system is still grappling with other issues. Learn how one school is struggling and creating uncertainty for its homeless students.

In the latest sign of the convergence between Indianapolis Public Schools and the city’s charter schools, the district is joining with the Office of Mayor Joe Hogsett for a campaign to recruit educators to Indianapolis.

A new website launched recently aims to attract mid-career teachers from other areas to teach in Indianapolis. The “Teach Indy” website and recruitment campaign is a partnership between the city’s largest district, the Mayor’s Office of Education Innovation — which authorizes many of the city’s charter schools — and The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis nonprofit that has played an integral role in the district’s growing collaboration with charter schools.

This year, the primary focus of Teach Indy is the website and an advertising campaign. The Mind Trust, which is funding the campaign, is prepared to spend up to $200,000 the first year, Gantzer said.

“Our schools wanted to see an increase in the number of teachers with, particularly, experience in urban education,” Gantzer said.

Read the full article about educators in Indianapolis by Dylan Peers McCoy at Chalkbeat