A month from today, school districts in northern Indiana will be in various stages of reopening their buildings for in-class instruction in the midst of a pandemic that is growing worse in some parts of the nation.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee Community School Corporation school board met briefly Tuesday, Aug. 20, to receive public input on the 2019-2020 proposed budget and tend to a handful of personnel matters. This year’s budget includes a 3.5% increase over last year’s. No members of the public attended to weigh in on the budget, which will be …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Syracuse resident Brock Hawthorne says he has contacted every department necessary to get answers as to why his special needs son, Deklan, was assaulted while on a parked bus in front of North Webster Elementary School on Friday, Sept. 4.

By DAVID GROUT Media Relations Grace College’s undergraduate counseling program recently placed second in the “Top 25 Small Colleges for a Counseling Degree” listing posted this March. Sorted by overall undergraduate graduation rate, Grace’s Bachelor of Science in Counseling and Bachelor of Arts in counseling degrees appeared behind only Emmaus Bible College.   “We are very pleased that …read more.

Friday was the official head count day for enrollment numbers for Indiana public schools. It was also exactly one month since the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year for the Wawasee Community School Corp. According to numbers provided by the school corporation, Wawasee had a corporation total of 3,028 students enrolled, an increase of 33 …read more.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final in a 3-part series examining school enrollment numbers and student transfers in Kosciusko County schools.) As the 2013-2014 school year gets underway, schools throughout the county are beginning to approximate student totals. Following the release of Warsaw Community School Corporation’s total student count, an increase in transfer enrollment into …read more.

A recent controversial proposal to Senate Bill 1 that will require schools to employ an armed security person known as a “school protection officer” during school hours, has been solidified. The new amendments to the bill, which was softened in early April during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, provides that public schools must …read more.