Our next two episodes are devoted to a new topic for this show about local government: the school board. There are two school districts in Monroe County: by far the larger of the two is the Monroe County Community School Corporation, which serves more than 10,000 students in more than 20 different school buildings. Neither city nor county government has any direct involvement in the oversight and operation of MCCSC. Our guests are April Hennessey and Erin Cooperman, the president and vice-president of MCCSC's Board of Trustees -- the completely separate unit of government which oversees the school system. We take a deep dive into what it's like to manage an Indiana school system, including a discussion of a controversial issue: the potential merger of Childs and Templeton Elementary Schools. (Part II will be released Wednesday, December 4.)

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