Two Marshall County Students Get Next Generation Hoosier Educator Scholarships

Two hundred future Indiana teachers will get some help paying for college. The Next Generation Hoosier Educators scholarship provides up to $7,500 a year for students who commit to teaching in Indiana for at least five years after graduation. Among the recipients locally were Hadassah Chupp of Triton Junior-Senior High School and Grant Kauffman of Bremen High School.

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Participants Graduate Leadership Marshall County Program


Back row, left to right: Matt Davis, Eric Holsopple, Amber Cowell, Sandy Orsund, Kerri Martin, John Yeager, Alicia Davis, Michelle Bougher, Todd Huff, Kyle Coffman. 
Front row, left to right: Marcella Hopple, Viki Brown, Jake Singleton, Allie Shook, Brandon Rich, Wesley Harness. 
(Not Pictured: Dr. Noemi Adame, Erika James, Angie Kain) Photo courtesy of Leadership Marshall County

Nineteen people are recent graduates of the Leadership Marshall County Progam, a joint program between the Marshall County Community Foundation and the United Way of Marshall County. 

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New State Budget Directs Schools to Raise Teacher Pay

Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, State Sen. Eddie Melton, and State Sen. Mike Bohacek take part in the Northwest Indiana Forum’s legislative wrap-up panel in Merrillville last week.

Indiana teachers may be getting a pay raise in the coming years. During the Northwest Indiana Forum’s legislative wrap-up last week, Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch highlighted the $1.9 billion earmarked for K-12 education in the new state budget.

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