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Residents urge action on aging building, restoration of student recognition and curriculum rollout

School City of Hammond Board of Trustees · February 19, 2025
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Summary

Public speakers urged the School City of Hammond board to close an aging building to relieve custodial staffing shortages, restore visible student recognition programs and ensure secondary curriculum materials (including Annie Burns Hicks content) are distributed beyond elementary grades.

Several community members used the public‑comment periods to raise facilities, curriculum and student‑recognition concerns.

Cindy Murphy urged the board to close a building the speaker said was past its life expectancy to relieve custodial staffing strains and redeploy floaters to other schools. Murphy also asked that the board not assume any closed building would become a charter…

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