School City of Hammond

School City of Hammond is working to boost its STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education offerings. The school board last week approved a bid from 1st Maker Space to install makerspaces at Hammond Central and Morton high schools, as well as Eggers and Scott middle schools.

The Hammond School Board is urging school leadership to come up with ways to fix the district's financial problems. Chief Financial Officer Eric Kurtz told board members Tuesday that the school corporation's cash reserves dropped from roughly $13 million to just $3 million over the course of 2022.

Schedule changes and staff reassignments continued to cause frustration at Tuesday's Hammond School Board meeting.

For schools working to wrap up construction projects before the first day of class, material and labor shortages have created some extra challenges. In Hammond, Morton High School began the school year Wednesday with the gym floor, window replacement and science labs still incomplete.

School City of Hammond's first African-American teacher will be recognized this week.

Public schools in Lake County's urban core continue to see declining enrollment. Numbers from the October 1 enrollment count were released by the Indiana Department of Education Thursday.

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