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SOUTH BEND â Board members of the South Bend Community School Corp. will consider plans Monday night to reform two underperforming elementary schools via a locally driven redesign plan that seeks to improve academic performance while keeping South Bend teachers in the schools. Administrators are targeting Marquette Montessori Academy and Muessel Elementary School for the redesign after both schools received five consecutive years of failing grades under the stateâs A-F accountability grading system. The schools have not yet met the threshold for state intervention because of a pause taken in actions tied to school accountability due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, district leaders say they donât want to wait until potential state takeover to take action. ....
SOUTH BEND â Despite pleas from parents, some school board members, and others to delay the move, the South Bend school board voted Monday to close Hay and Tarkington elementary schools. After more than two and a half hours of informational presentations and questions, the board voted to shutter the schools at the end of this school year as a first step in Superintendent Todd Cummingsâ districtwide ârightsizing.â Before the vote, Jeanette McCullough, an at-large board member, moved to table the measure, but the effort failed. During the administrationâs discussion of the closure recommendations, board members questioned which schools the affected students will be sent to and debated what that will mean for class sizes. ....
SOUTH BEND â South Bend Community School Corp. administrators will share more details on proposed turnaround efforts at two underperforming elementary schools in a meeting next week. School officials previously told staff and families they would discuss possible changes in the districtâs Marquette Montessori Academy and Muessel Elementary School in a Monday night board work session. However, after the Monday night meeting passed without an update on the schools, John Anella, president of the South Bend school board, said administrators wanted more time before presenting their plans. School officials have presented two possible options for restructuring the elementary schools in the 2021-22 year. ....