PHM school board

The Penn-Harris-Madison School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Heather Short as the district’s next superintendent.

Penn-Harris-Madison Schools Assistant Superintendent Heather Short has been with the corporation since hiring on as a teacher out of college in 1994.

Benjamin Dallas thought he'd come up with a clever workaround but the election board's two voting members, both attorneys, voted to remove him from the November ballot

The deadline for school board candidates to file by was Thursday June 20.

Matt Chaffee released a statement Wednesday saying he will not resign his position on the school board.

The P-H-M school board voted 5-0 to call on Chaffee to resign, though he cannot be compelled to do so.

The Goshen and Penn-Harris-Madison elections mirrored battles across the country over how race, diversity and gender are taught in public schools. In both races, only one of three conservative candidates won.

The Penn-Harris-Madison school board Monday tabled a proposed update to district policy regarding how students can change their name and pronouns until the next academic year.