John Glenn School Superintendent Christopher Winchell updated the school board members last week on the work going into the proposed Greene Township School disannexation/annexation process.
The Greene Township Trustee approached the John Glenn School Board in a public meeting in 2018 who was in support of students at the Greene Township School attending school at the John Glenn School Corporation if the South Bend School Corporation went through with plans to release Greene Township from the corporation.
In 2020, a Senate Bill died in the House Committee on Education that dealt with school corporation disannexation. It would have established a two-year pilot program whereby Greene Township, in St. Joseph County, may initiate a process to disannex from the South Bend School Corporation and annex to the John Glenn School Corporation.
Last week, Winchell said ongoing conversations are happening between the legal teams from both school corporations to develop a plan collegially.
Winchell stated, “Right now what we’re working on specifically is getting some projections from the Baker Tilly team of how this will impact the two schools and trying to quantify what that looks like – what the difference is between tax rates, things going in different directions and the graduated way in which the tax rates will likely change.”
A formal resolution has not been presented to either school district in the process, but work is ongoing to come to an agreement by the end of the year.
