A longstanding St. Joseph County debate over school district boundaries captured the stateâs attention last week after Republican lawmakers booed and shouted down Black legislatorsâ concerns about discrimination in a bill that would remove students from the racially diverse South Bend Community School Corp. and send them to the smaller, less diverse John Glenn School Corp.
House Bill 1367, which advanced to the state Senate last week, would provide a new mechanism for John Glenn to seek disannexation of the South Bend Community School Corp.âs Greene Township without the South Bend districtâs cooperation or approval.
If the bill passes, South Bend school officials say, their district could stand to lose millions in property tax money and have little recourse for the change.