Wawasee Community School Corporation is applying for grant money to be awarded through Gov. Eric Holcomb’s Emergency Education Relief.

By Tim Ashley InkFreeNews SYRACUSE — Due to COVID-19 and the stay at home order now in effect until May 1, the Wawasee Community School Corporation board of trustees regular meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, has been cancelled. An update of WCSC activities will be forwarded to media outlets Tuesday, April 21. …read more.

SYRACUSE — The last day of school for students in the Wawasee Community School Corporation will be Thursday, May 21, according to a letter WCSC Superintendent Tom Edington sent to parents today, Friday, April 17. The letter also announces the high school administration is still working on a plan for what graduation will look like …read more.

SYRACUSE — More than 1,000 students in the Wawasee Community School Corporation have already been served this school year through educational programs presented by the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation. Pam Schumm, representing the WACF, gave a report to the Wawasee School Board during its regular monthly meeting held Tuesday evening, Oct. 8, in the Pathways …read more.

SYRACUSE — The most recent mass-shooting in a public school in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14 leaving 17 dead, has again heightened national awareness about keeping students and staff safe in schools. And the debate about tougher gun-control legislation has also been stirred up again. Locally, the Wawasee Community School Corporation is part of a county …read more.

SYRACUSE — School corporation administration responded to a grandparent’s concern about school bus safety. During the Sept. 12 Wawasee Community School Corporation board meeting, Rhonda Ousley, who lives near North Webster, asked for consideration to install cameras near the stop arms on buses. She noted she had seen multiple occurrences of vehicle drivers not stopping …read more.

SYRACUSE — Beginning with the 2016-17 school year, 1:1 electronic devices were made available for students and teachers in the Wawasee Community School Corporation. Now the school corporation is able to implement virtual learning days, known as eLearning, which it is doing this school year as some other school corporations in the state have done …read more.

SYRACUSE — School accountability letter grades for the 2016-17 school year were officially released publicly Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 4, by the Indiana Department of Education. Locally, two schools in the Wawasee Community School Corporation improved their letter grades compared to the previous school year, two schools remained the same and one was a grade lower. …read more.

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.

WARSAW — Shelby Beam, Leah Kilgore and Carla Miliiman’s kindergarten classes celebrated the marriage of “Q” and “U” Wednesday, Feb. 17.

WASHINGTON, DC — Tomorrow, during its Digital Learning Day Live event, the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, DC non-profit, will announce that Indiana’s Warsaw Community Schools is one of three recipients of its Excellence and Innovation in Secondary Schools award.

SYRACUSE — During the regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13, of the school board for the Wawasee Community School Corp., among the agenda items will be consideration of the renewal of the contract for Dr. Tom Edington, superintendent.

Teens sometimes feel lonely and like nobody cares about them. And in today’s world they are more likely to talk about their problems with their peers rather than an adult. In response to the two student suicides during the 2012-13 academic year, Wawasee High School has formed a peer facilitators program where upperclass students are …read more.