South Bend Community Schools Board

United Way plans to turn South Bend’s historic Marquette Academy building into a neighborhood hub offering childcare, education, and family services.

“We must prioritize our needs and work on the capital projects which are most needed, to ensure the bare minimum safe and secure learning environment for all our students, regardless of their race or their neighborhood or the side of the town,” Chief Financial Officer Ahnaf Tahmid told the school board Monday.

South Bend Community Schools Corporation Trustee Bill Sniadecki is asking a federal court to intervene and put him on the St. Joseph County Public Library board before it passes its 2026 budget Oct. 20.

The Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix earlier this year hired Todd Cummings as superintendent despite the South Bend school board publicly investigating various allegations against him.

The Paradise Valley Unified School District board was set Tuesday to consider placing former South Bend Superintendent Todd Cummings on paid leave, for a reason the board's meeting agenda doesn't specify, and appointing an interim superintendent.

The school district is hosting five town hall meetings on what school officials are calling “Plan C.” School board member Mark Costello says the main change he’s proposing is moving sixth grade from middle to elementary schools.

The South Bend Community School Corporation may try to solve its transportation challenges by letting security staff drive school buses. Superintendent Mansour Eid says he got the idea at a recent superintendents conference and is thinking about offering it in South Bend when security staff meets on the next record day.

Numbers are still preliminary, but Superintendent Mansour Eid told the school board Tuesday that the district currently has more than 14,000 students. But he said there were more than 40 vacancies for teachers.

The St. Joseph County Public Library Board isn’t letting the South Bend School Board president’s new appointment take his seat. The library board passed a resolution Monday denying a request to seat Bill Sniadecki, saying that the seat is already filled.

The South Bend School Board president has named a new member to the St. Joseph County Public Library Board, but the library says there isn’t an opening.