By Scott Weisser
THE GOSHEN NEWS
Fri, May 16 2008
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MIDDLEBURY, Ind. — They voted to vote.
Voters in the Middlebury Community Schools district went to the polls Tuesday overwhelmingly in favor of having an elected school board. Middlebury’s had been one of the few school corporations in Indiana to have an appointed group.
The referendum had three options for voters — two proposals for an elected board and one for keeping an appointed board. Of the 4,611 total votes cast, 3,741 were for an elected body. Only 870 voters — around 19 percent — favored the status quo.
Proponents of an elected board got the issue on the ballot by gathering enough signatures in support.
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