Filing began Wednesday, July 22, for the two at-large seats on the Wawasee School Board up for reelection this year. The two seats are held by Mike Wilson and Don Bokhart.

By Tim Ashley InkFreeNews SYRACUSE — Although the Wawasee School Board meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, was cancelled due to COVID-19 and the stay-at-home order, the school corporation released a list of recommendations and plans the board will ratify when it next meets, either electronically or in person in May or June. Emergency …read more.

SYRACUSE — Indiana ranks dead last in the United States in teacher salary increases during the last 15 years. Twenty-one percent of all school districts will receive less state funding than the previous year. Those are among the reasons a rally will be held Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis to encourage more …read more.

SYRACUSE — Mostly Smart boards and a few other items can be found now in what will be the classrooms of the new Syracuse Elementary School. But only a few months from now, students and teachers will fill those classrooms.

SYRACUSE — There will be no changes in the makeup of the Wawasee school board. Incumbents Mike Wilson (District 1) and Don Bokhart (District 2) retained the two at-large seats on the board after Tuesday’s election.

SYRACUSE — When voters go to their polling locations Tuesday, Nov. 8, to vote for Wawasee school board candidates, they will choose from among five candidates seeking the two at-large seats.

SYRACUSE — Four of the five Wawasee school board candidates for two at-large seats were present at a forum Thursday evening, Oct. 27, in the lecture room at Wawasee Middle School. Candidate Gary Coy was not present.

SYRACUSE — A total of five candidates are seeking two at-large seats in the Nov. 8 election for the school board of the Wawasee Community School Corp.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee Community Educators Association is sponsoring a school board candidates forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the lecture room at Wawasee Middle School. The school is located on SR 13, just south of CR 1000N and south of Syracuse.

SYRACUSE — The two at-large seats on the Wawasee Community School Corp. Board of Trustees are up for election in November. The seats are currently held by Mike Wilson and Don Bokhart. Residents within any of the school corporation’s three districts, over the age of 18, are eligible to seek a position on the school …read more.

SYRACUSE — After 40 years of teaching at the same elementary school, making the decision to retire was not the least bit easy for Don Bokhart. He had no negative feelings about public education and very much enjoyed teaching, but wanting to spend more time with grandchildren, he felt it was time to retire.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee’s school board held a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 2, to swear in a new member, Don Bokhart, and give permission to advertise the 2017 budget. The board also approved two new administrative employees: Sandra Weaver, replacing Wendy Hite as the corporation’s director of special education, and Cory Schutz, Steve Wiktorowski’s replacement as …read more.

SYRACUSE — A teacher for 37 years, Don Bokhart will replace George Gilbert on the Wawasee school board. The school board approved the appointment of Bokhart during the regular monthly meeting Tuesday, July 12, in Syracuse.