In response to media requests, Marion Community Schools released the following statement:
Marion Community Schools began an investigation immediately after being informed of the allegations. All mandatory reporting laws were followed, and Marion Community Schools is cooperating with all law enforcement and other involved officials.
We can provide no further comment.
Provided by Marion Community School of the Arts
Tickets are on sale now for the Community School of the Arts (CSA) upcoming production of "Matilda The Musical". Directed by Nikki Bailey, with Musical Directors Michele Henry and Ryan Drown, and presented by CSA’s Theatre compANY.
The Marion Community Schools Board of School Trustees has revised its meeting schedule for 2021, choosing return to two regularly scheduled meetings each month.
Meetings for the rest of the year will start at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, unless otherwise announced.
Marion Community Schools was informed Monday, April 13, that a student who was last at Marion High School on Wednesday, April 7, has been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. In connection with this case, there were no school related closed contacts identified.
For the seventh year in a row, the McCulloch Junior High School music department has earned the Indiana State School Music Association’s highest honor, the J/M/E Total Department All Music Award — the only school in the state to do so seven years straight, and one of only two schools in the state to earn the award this year.
Every year, ISSMA hosts several competitions for music students in the state. The All Music Awards are the culmination of those contests, and the music departments who earn them are among the best in the state.
This week's Giant Talk features McCulloch Junior High School Choir Director Christina Huff and Marion Community Schools Head Nurse Sue Nicholson. Check it out:
This weekend, hundreds of students from our region will gather here in Marion as part of the Indiana Music Education Association’s 32nd annual Circle the State with Song festival.
Marion Community Schools was informed Wednesday, April 7, that a staffer who was last at Kendall Elementary School on Tuesday, April 6, has been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. In connection with this case, no school related close contacts were identified.
In addition, a staffer who was last at McCulloch Junior High School on Tuesday, April 6, has been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. In connection with this case, 2 students were identified as school related close contacts and have been informed and instructed to quarantine.
Marion Community Schools announced today that their championship winning e-sports program will be expanding to include teams at both McCulloch Junior High and Justice Intermediate School beginning in fall 2021.
A Marion Community Schools bus was involved in a minor accident at the intersection of 9th and McClure streets after school on Wednesday, April 7, when a car rear-ended it.
The bus was carrying Riverview Elementary students. The Transportation Department has reached out to all families of students involved. There were no significant injuries, but paramedics provided precautionary exams on scene for all students and staff involved.
Students were released to their families on the scene or transported home on another bus that was brought to the scene.