South Bend Community Schools Board

South Bend Community Schools board attorney Pete Agostino thanked Regina Williams-Preston, a former corporation teacher and administrator, for her past calls to look at subjectivity as a reason why Black students are punished disproportionately.

Granger Republican Sen. Linda Rogers Thursday announced she was pulling her bill to replace South Bend Community Schools' board with a state-appointed one this session, after it met overwhelming opposition at a committee hearing Wednesday.

At its first committee hearing Wednesday, Granger Republican Sen. Linda Rogers' bill to replace South Bend Community Schools' elected board with one appointed by the Indiana Secretary of Education drew overwhelming opposition from people who testified. Rogers said she likely will make major changes based on their input.

South Bend Community Schools Superintendent Mansour Eid said he met with Sen. Linda Rogers Saturday and explained how the corporation has made improvements over the past year.

The Indiana Senate Education and Career Development Committee will give a first hearing Wednesday to Granger Republican Sen. Linda Rogers' bill to have a state-appointed board replace the locally elected South Bend Community Schools board.

Democrat Gabrianna Gratzol, planning to challenge Republican Sen. Linda Rogers in the November elections, says action is needed to improve public schools but removing locally elected school board members in South Bend is not the answer.

Granger Republican State Sen. Linda Rogers Thursday filed a bill, effective July 1, to replace the elected South Bend Community Schools board with one appointed by the governor-appointed Indiana Secretary of Education.

The South Bend school board is forming a committee to review discipline data under a decades-old federal desegregation order and report findings in January.

South Bend school leaders vote to begin the process of extending Superintendent Mansour Eid’s contract through 2027, triggering a required public hearing.

For the last three years, commencement was held at Notre Dame’s Compton Family Ice Arena. Superintendent Mansour Eid told the school board Monday that it cost $140,000 to rent the facility.