Stay updated with breaking news from Jerry Thacker. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
Students work on their computers in a first grade classroom Thursday, April 1, 2021 at Swanson Traditional School in South Bend. South Bend Community School Corp. is expected to receive more than $59 million in its third round of federal pandemic relief funding, the Indiana Department of Education announced Monday. Tribune Photo/MICHAEL CATERINA
The announcements came Wednesday via bus radios and classroom intercoms. Clara Bepe, an economics teacher at Mishawaka High School, had to check in with a neighboring teacher when she saw the news. âOh my goodness, is this real?â she asked, before running back to her classroom to set up a self-paced lesson for her students who were e-learning that day. Bepe, like hundreds of other school staff members across Michiana this week, was finally being called up for her turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. âIt was one of those thrilling moments,â Bepe said. âWe were process...
Teachers Tammie Hagedorn, left, and Jill Satterfield work together to install cardboard dividers, with plastic windows, at every desk in a fourth-grade classroom at Swanson Elementary School on Tuesday in South Bend. The district is ramping up coronavirus safety features as it readies for more students to return to classrooms. Tribune Photo/ROBERT FRANKLIN
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.