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Good morning from MJ at Chalkbeat Indiana! Yesterday was the first meeting of the new Indianapolis Public Education Corporation. Aleks has the story below on how the meeting went.

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IPEC just met for the first time. Here’s what the new Indianapolis schools board discussed.

Indiana lawmakers established IPEC to manage key operations for IPS and charter schools in the city. The body is beginning work on considering whether to seek a property tax increase this fall.

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