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The complaint by Career and Success Academy centers on the Brown Community Learning Center

Two Indiana Charter Schools Are Competing To Buy A Building For $1 Dylan Peers McCoy/WFYI Two charter schools are competing to buy an elementary building in South Bend under a controversial Indiana law that forces districts to sell or lease closed schools for $1. After the South Bend school board voted earlier this year to close Tarkington Elementary School, the state added it to a list of unused buildings that charter schools can buy. Two schools submitted letters of interest: Career and Success Academy of South Bend, which runs three schools in the city, and the Paramount Schools of Excell...

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 Param...

SOUTH BEND — South Bend schools Superintendent Todd Cummings announced plans Monday evening to “rightsize” and “reorganize” the district by closing two school buildings at the end of this school year, creating an “Innovation Network Zone” that would give autonomy to two other schools, and potentially closing one high school in 2022-23. The recommendation calls for closing Hay and Tarkington elementary schools and creating the “Innovation Zone” for Muessel Elementary School and Marquette Montessori Academy. It will be up for a final board vote on Fe...