Kalb Eastern News Today

BUTLER — DeKalb Eastern will offer free summer meals again this year.

KENDALLVILLE — East Noble will expand its On My Way Pre-K preschool program, adding classrooms and staff at two schools and making all three sites a full-day program.

BUTLER — The DeKalb Eastern school board voted unanimously Aug. 21 to advertise its proposed 2024 budget.

Sewer district board meets Aug. 23

BUTLER — It’s a combination of academics and fine arts.

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Most school districts were able to complete an entire year of education, offering in-person and virtual offerings or other arrangements.

BUTLER — DeKalb Eastern school board members will hear Monday from a parent who wants them to adopt a “mask-optional” policy for students in the 2021-22 school year. “I just want the choice whether to put one on my kid or myself as an informed individual,” said Milinda Maria Abel, a registered nurse who lives in southeastern DeKalb County. DeKalb Eastern’s superintendent, Shane Conwell, added Abel’s topic to the board’s agenda, but he is suggesting the bo...

Lawmakers passed the budget in their 2021 session that ended in late April. “I thought we did very well” for the schools in his 51st District, Smaltz said. Garrett-Keyser-Butler schools will see funding increases of 9.4% for 2022 and 4.7% in 2023. For DeKalb Central schools, the increases will be 6.7% and 2.8%. The second-year figure is influenced by a forecast that enrollment will decline by 1.7%. The funding figures are based on enrollment, and amounts will change if student numbers...

BUTLER — DeKalb Eastern employees won’t have to go far for medical care. In the case of staff members at Eastside Junior-Senior High School, it’s within walking distance of the school. On Jan. 4, the Northeast Indiana School Insurance Trust opened a clinic at 306 Hampel Drive — using part of the former Butler Elementary School building — with Everside Health as the medical provider. Thursday, school officials and the clinic staff celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremon...