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Operating Amp Lab at Electric Works doesn’t come cheap.

The Southwest Allen County Schools board meeting ended in applause Tuesday with the selection of Park Ginder as the next superintendent. The Homestea ...

Local Ivy Tech leader to retire Led campuses in city, Warsaw; to exit in September LISA GREEN | The Journal Gazette Jerrilee K. Mosier, chancellor of the Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne and Warsaw locations, will retire in September, the school announced Friday. Mosier, 66, joined Ivy Tech Fort Wayne in 2010 as chancellor. She beat out 35 other applicants and two other final candidates. She had served in academic leadership roles at community colleges in Washington, Oklahoma, and Kansas. ...

Most area schools would see more money under a House Republican K-12 budget.

Schools torn on time out of class CDC suggests 14 days but say as low as 10 after virus ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette Allen County school districts are divided about updated quarantine guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends a 14-day quarantine period, but the agency announced last month that quarantined students and employees could return to school and work on Day 11 if certain conditions were met. Fort Wayne Community Schools has stuck to the 14-day ...

SACS considers pay boost for subs Other districts have done so to alleviate shortage ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette A school district thats seen its substitute teacher pool shrink dramatically because of the pandemic is looking to boost those employees pay. But leaders of Southwest Allen County Schools acknowledge the $5 boost to the daily rate might not expand the roster of subs. “Im not sure how much more were going to attract,” said LuAnn Erickson, human resources director. “I th...

Parents upset with missing athletics Voice concerns during SACS board meeting ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette An emotional Phil Downs pounded the table Tuesday as he briefed a crowd about the difficulties he faces. The Southwest Allen County Schools superintendent must keep classes going, he works alongside people grieving family lost to the coronavirus, and he leads employees scared to come to work because of the health crisis. “Its a pandemic,” Downs said, exasperated. “And it is a...