Other School Board Agenda Items
SYRACUSE — Other agenda items during the Wawasee school board meeting Tuesday, April 18, included:
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SYRACUSE — Other agenda items during the Wawasee school board meeting Tuesday, April 18, included:
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s football field will have a significantly different look by August. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday evening, April 18, in Syracuse, the board approved entering a contract with Cincinnati-based The Motz Group for a new artificial turf field to be installed at the high school this summer.
Read MoreKOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Admittedly, numbers can sometimes be manipulated or arranged in such a way as to be misleading. But when it comes to the number of people directly engaged in farming, the story told is one of far fewer people involved in agriculture than a couple of generations ago.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — 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.
Read MoreWARSAW — During its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, April 11, in Warsaw, the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals approved a petition by Armstrong Holdings to install a drive through for a new business coming to the intersection of SR 13 and CR 500N, south of North Webster in Tippecanoe Township.
Read MoreWARSAW — Terry Shepherd, developer of the Candlewood Estates subdivision in Wayne Township, wants to re-plat the second phase of the subdivision from six lots to three. Also changing would be the shortening of a cul-de-sac by a considerable distance and relocating a 20-foot emergency access easement to the western edge of one of the three lots.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Four Wawasee High School students had to think fast in role playing situations during the state DECA competition in Indianapolis in January. But they were able to do so effectively enough to finish second and third and to qualify for the national DECA competition, more specifically the International Career Development Conference, April 26-29 in Anaheim, Calif.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Wawasee High School engineering students, led by teacher Allen Coblentz, are preparing two super mileage cars for the annual Shell Eco-marathon April 26-30 on the streets of downtown Detroit. One of the cars, diesel powered, will have four wheels, is larger and will actually look a little closer to a real life car.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — A team of five visited Wawasee schools on a “whirlwind tour” and came away with a recommendation for accreditation for the school district. An exit report of the AdvancEd team’s findings was given by Dr. Michael Henry of Springfield, Ore., Wednesday afternoon, March 22, in the Warrior Room at Wawasee High School.
Read MoreWARSAW — When she is able to “make it happen” for a young person, it’s the best part of Mindy Wise’s job. She is the 4-H youth development educator for the Kosciusko County Purdue Extension Office in Warsaw.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Among the many reports public school corporations are involved in each year is the annual performance report. The 2016 version for the Wawasee Community School Corp. was recently released by the Indiana Department of Education and is published in its full form in this edition of The Mail-Journal.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Every five years, the Wawasee Community School Corp. goes through an accreditation process where a team visits and thoroughly examines the school district. The school corporation is preparing for a visit from AdvancED next week for the accreditation process.
Read MoreWARSAW — It was a shorter than normal agenda for the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals during its regular monthly meeting Tuesday morning, March 14, in Warsaw.
Read MoreCLAYPOOL — Several months ago I was driving south of Warsaw on SR 15 up and down the gently rolling hills near Claypool. I noticed an old barn sitting fairly close to the road.
Read MoreCLAYPOOL — Duncan Campbell, board member of the Indiana Barn Foundation, looked at a photo of the old barn along SR 15, north of Claypool, and said the style has its origins in the English threshing barn, sometimes referred to as the English three-bay barn.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Wawasee Community School Corp. was one of 32 school districts statewide to be awarded a 2017 digital learning grant by the Indiana Department of Education’s Office of eLearning. This grant supports school corporations in providing professional development, developing content and expectations, creating avenues for parent and student communication, as well as purchasing devices.
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