Penn High students participated and placed in the recent Canstruction competition hosted at University Park Mall. The challenge: Constructing large 3-dimensional displays of stacked food cans in entertaining or surprising forms. The purpose: Raising awareness about local hunger, while gathering and donating thousands of cans of food to alleviate hunger...

Speak Up is a national research initiative that seeks to gather widespread input on the topic of educational technology . Each fall the Speak Up survey is posted online so students, parents, teachers, school staff, and the general public can share their views on technology in schools. The Speak Up...

This morning (Wed., September 30, 2015) in a special meeting Penn-Harris-Madison Board of School Trustees unanimously voted to approve the Teachers Agreement for the 2015-2016 school year raising the eligible teachers’ salaries by at least $2,000. In the new one-year agreement ratified Friday, Sept. 25 by the Teachers Association, the...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today that Prairie Vista Elementary School is among the 335 schools (10 in Indiana) named a 2015 National Blue Ribbon School . Prairie Vista is being recognized for being “Exemplary High Performing School,” per the Department of Education’s classifications. This makes the second...

Penn students will present the critically acclaimed stage drama “Devour the Snow” on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2. “A riveting courtroom drama drawn from the harrowing saga of the ill-fated Donner Party, some of whose members perished (and were cannibalized by the others) while snowbound in the Sierra...