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Two charter schools are competing for a closing South Bend building. Here's why.


SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Community School Corp. could see new competition for students after its Tarkington Elementary School closes this year.
Just shy of 7,400 students within South Bend district lines enrolled in charters and nonpublic schools this year, according to state data, and a new school opening in a building Tarkington’s size could mean a loss of over 300 more students and $2 million in per pupil funding.
With multiple charter schools interested in the Tarkington space, that loss is looking more likely.
South Bend’s Career Academy and the Indianapolis-based Paramount Schools of Excellence submitted formal interest last month to take over the Tarkington building under a state law that allows for the lease or sale of unused school buildings to charter schools for just $1. ....

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South Bend school board votes to close Hay, Tarkington elementary schools


SOUTH BEND — 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 Cummings’ districtwide “rightsizing.”
Before the vote, Jeanette McCullough, an at-large board member, moved to table the measure, but the effort failed.
During the administration’s 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. ....

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