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Friedersdorf joins MCS in new role to help meet students', families' needs

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Published: 6/11/2019

Marion Community Schools is pleased to welcome Dr. Troy Friedersdorf as Executive Director of Student and Family Services.

In this position, Friedersdorf will be overseeing and facilitating student support services throughout the school district, preschool through high school. He will support, implement, and evaluate services that promote the healthy development of the whole student, and to meet families’ needs.

MCS online registration now open for 2019-20 school year

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District, Allen Elementary School, Frances Slocum Elementary School, Kendall Elementary School, Riverview Elementary School, Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School, McCulloch Junior High School, Marion High School

Published: 6/3/2019

Registration for the 2019-20 school year at Marion Community Schools is now open.

Families with students who were enrolled at an MCS school last year can register their students online now, through the PowerSchool Unified Classroom.

The online registration process can be completed at any internet-connected computer (including the public stations available at Marion Public Library).

Tennis camp offered for 1st- through 8th-graders

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Published: 6/3/2019

Marion High School tennis coach Doug Porter and the Grant County Community Tennis Association are offering tennis camp for incoming 1st- through 8th-graders next week.

Registration deadline is this Wednesday, June 5.

>> Click here for more details from mariongiantssports.com

Incoming 5th- through 8th-graders invited to Giants Basketball Academy

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District, Allen Elementary School, Frances Slocum Elementary School, Kendall Elementary School, Riverview Elementary School, Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School, Marion High School

Published: 6/3/2019

This summer, Marion Giants boys basketball coaches are offering summer training to boys going into grades 5 through 8 at Marion Community Schools next year.

The Marion Giants Basketball Academy starts June 4 at Marion High School.

>> Click here for more details from mariongiantssports.com

FREE meals available for local kids through June 20

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District, Little Giants Preschool, Allen Elementary School, Frances Slocum Elementary School, Kendall Elementary School, Riverview Elementary School, Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School, McCulloch Junior High School, Marion High School

Published: 5/28/2019

Originally posted May 28

Marion Community Schools is a Summer Food Service Program participant. Free breakfast and lunch is available to the public (to anyone 18 or younger) as follows this summer:

Meals will be available Monday through Friday, June 3 through June 14 at Allen Elementary, Frances Slocum Elementary School, Kendall Elementary, Riverview Elementary, Justice Intermediate School, and McCulloch Junior High School; meals will be available Monday through Thursday June 3 through June 20 at Marion High School.

Foss, Montgomery, Sechrest earn Mary Clark Hanley Teaching Excellence Award

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District, Little Giants Preschool, Allen Elementary School, Frances Slocum Elementary School, Kendall Elementary School, Riverview Elementary School, Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School

Published: 5/14/2019

Six teachers earned special recognition at the MCS School Board meeting on May 14, 2019, as this year’s nominees and recipients of the Mary Clark Hanley Teaching Excellence Award.

The nominees are an exclusive group that personifies excellence. They were selected by their respective principals or coordinators. The 2015-16 nominees are:

VIDEO: MHS JROTC’s Cadet Smith wins National Drill Championship

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District, Marion High School

Published: 5/7/2019

It was well known around the Midwestern JROTC Drill community that DJ Smith from Marion High School was a force to be reckoned with. He earned first place finishes in all five of the regional competitions he entered this year. But stepping up to compete at the National Championship on May 4 in Daytona, Fla., was a dream of his. With big dreams, come big rewards: Cadet Smith is now the National JROTC Drill Champion!

IASP names MHS's Principal Burke as regional Principal of the Year

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District, Marion High School

Published: 5/6/2019

By Myla Townsend

Congratulations to Marion High School Principal Keith Burke for being selected as the Indiana Association of School Principals High School Principal of the Year for District 6. District 6 includes Grant, Delaware, Henry, Wayne, Randolph, Jay and Blackford County.

Marion High School Hall of Distinction 2019 inductees named

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District, Marion High School

Published: 4/26/2019

Marion Community Schools is pleased to announce the 2019 inductees to the Marion High School Hall of Distinction.

The selection committee chose seven inductees:

Giants to participate in Unified Game Day (5/10)

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Published: 4/15/2019

Select Marion Community Schools students in grades kindergarten through eight will be participating next month in Unified Game Day, a Special Olympics-style friendly competition in a variety of unified track and field events.