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Board approves calendar and multiple MOUs including school-based counselor and workforce partnership
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Summary
The Gary Community School Corporation board approved the 2026–27 school calendar, a memorandum with the Center of Workforce Innovations (recused vote by the president), a school-based health MOU to place a counselor at Westside, and an affiliation agreement with Methodist Hospital for CNA clinical hours.
At its March 12 meeting the Gary Community School Corporation board approved several action items intended to support students and families.
The board approved the 2026–27 academic calendar on a 4-0 roll call. It also approved a memorandum of understanding with the Center of Workforce Innovations (CWI) to provide adult literacy and high-school equivalency programming; President Suggs recused himself from that vote because he serves as CWI board chair, and the MOU passed 3–0 with one abstention. Samantha Smith, CWI’s director of building and training, told the board the partnership will focus on parents and adult learners so families can better support students.
The board likewise approved an MOU with a school-based health network to place a counselor full time at Westside High School to provide behavioral-health services (grant-funded), and it renewed an affiliation agreement with Methodist Hospital to allow students to earn clinical hours toward CNA certification. All of those actions passed on roll calls of 4–0. The board recorded this cluster of approvals as part of its regular business and noted funding sources where applicable.
Next procedural steps include implementing the counseling placement at Westside and coordinating CWI programming with the district’s family-engagement plans.
