Wawasee School Board Gets Community Input About Mask Wearing

InkFreeNews.com Sep 14, 2021 avatar  Updated: Sep 14, 2021 @ 8:37 PM

Mask wearing has been a contentious issue especially recently with some local school boards, including Warsaw, grappling with it. Although the Wawasee School Board did not take any vote to change current policies, several community members shared their opinions with the board during the regular monthly meeting of the school board Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, in the Wawasee High School cafeteria.

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Budget Process Presented To Wawasee School Board

InkFreeNews.com Aug 31, 2021 avatar  Updated: Aug 31, 2021 @ 7:41 PM

School corporation budgets can seem complicated and hard to understand, but don’t tell that to James Flecker, director of personnel and legal services for the Wawasee Community School Corporation. Flecker used a much more lighthearted approach when giving a budget workshop presentation to the Wawasee School Board at a special meeting Tuesday evening, Aug. 31, in Syracuse.

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Wawasee School Board Given Learning Loss Report

InkFreeNews.com Jul 13, 2021 avatar  Updated: Jul 13, 2021 @ 8:25 PM

How much learning loss really occurred as a result of COVID-19? It has been a topic of discussion and concern and during the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, July 13, in Syracuse the board heard a brief report about it from Dr. Shelly Wilfong, assistant superintendent.

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Wawasee Virtual Learning Program Will Be Expanded

InkFreeNews.com May 11, 2021 avatar  Updated: May 11, 2021 @ 9:03 PM

Wawasee will expand its virtual learning program into the middle school grades beginning with the 2021-22 school year. Approval was given for the expansion during the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, May 11, in Syracuse.

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Wawasee School Board Given Report On Guided Reading

InkFreeNews.com Apr 20, 2021 avatar  Updated: Apr 20, 2021 @ 7:52 PM

Guided reading has been a piece of the reading curriculum for elementary school students in the Wawasee Community School Corporation for about the last three years. How that element works and has been effective was part of a report given during the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, April 20, in Syracuse.

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Kosciusko Chamber Of Commerce Highlights Award Recipients

InkFreeNews.com Mar 18, 2021 avatar  Updated: Mar 18, 2021 @ 4:06 PM

Earlier this month, the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce announced the recipients of their 2020 business and individual awards during their 109th annual awards program.

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Elementary Principals Give Report On Remediation Efforts To Board

InkFreeNews.com Mar 09, 2021 avatar  Updated: Mar 10, 2021 @ 7:28 AM

Several students have fallen behind academically as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee School Board Tuesday evening, March 9, in Syracuse, the board heard a brief report on efforts to cut the gaps in learning from elementary school principals Eric Speicher (Syracuse), Chris Gerbers (Milford) and Lee Snider (North Webster).

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Everyday Community Heroes: A Tribute To School Bus Drivers

InkFreeNews.com Mar 03, 2021 avatar  Updated: Mar 3, 2021 @ 6:49 AM

As Kosciusko County schools resume in-person classroom instruction, once again “the wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round.” And steering those wheels is a small army of heroes who don’t wear capes, dedicated community servants known as bus drivers.

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Wawasee Middle School Site Of Third ‘Listen and Learn’ Meeting

InkFreeNews.com Feb 20, 2021 avatar  Updated: Feb 20, 2021 @ 12:33 PM

Opening up the channels of communication with the public and internally was a common topic of the third “Listen and Learn” meeting held by Dr. Steve Troyer, superintendent of the Wawasee Community School Corporation, Saturday morning, Feb. 20, in the cafeteria of Wawasee Middle School. A small group of about 15 people, several of them school administrators, came to the meeting.

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