SYRACUSE — A significant Lilly Endowment grant awarded to the Wawasee Community School Corporation in the summer will allow more resources to be focused on increasing student attendance, decreasing student class failures and decreasing the number of dropouts. In June, the school corporation received a letter saying it had been approved for a Lilly Endowment …read more.

SYRACUSE — School districts statewide are often overwhelmed by the emotional and social needs students face. Those needs have increased in recent years especially due to the opioid addiction crisis and other factors families are dealing with. To address this problem, Lilly Endowment launched a counseling initiative in September 2016 and began awarding grants to …read more.

SYRACUSE — Twelve Wawasee High School students who study Spanish were able to practice what they have learned during a trip to Costa Rica this summer. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday evening, Sept. 12, in Syracuse, the board heard a report about the nine-day trip from Rikki McCann, Spanish …read more.