John Glenn School Corporation Superintendent Christopher Winchell updated the school board last week on discussions with the South Bend School Corporation concerning the disannexation of the Greene Township School.
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 stated that the John Glenn officials and South Bend officials recently reviewed a proposed resolution that would officially begin the disannexation process.
Winchell said, “That would start about an 18-to-24 month process where a formal plan would be derived and published and then also reviewed the Indiana Department of Education for approval.”
If both school boards passed the same proposed resolution, as part of the process, taxpayers would be notified at some point and public input would be taken with a petition remonstrance period, if necessary.
Winchell commented that a proposed resolution could be presented to the school board to be approved by the end of the year.
