Boundary ground: North Liberty, Greene Township, and a decree that is not John Glenn's

BOUNDARY SIZE, BY THE COUNTY SEQUENCE'S RULE · THE GREENE MOVEMENT, 2018–2024

North Liberty's schools print here at boundary size, because their whole belongs to the North Liberty build later in the locked county sequence: what Walkerton's file needs of them is the shared skeleton — North Liberty Elementary, whose principal is Randy Romer, and North Liberty's own high school, the Shamrocks, whose students came into the consolidated corporation with the merger and whose building's closing year belongs to the North Liberty pass to settle (GAP-WKSCH-6). The corporation's live boundary question runs the other direction, northeast toward South Bend. In 2018 a movement began among Greene Township residents to leave the South Bend Community School Corporation and join John Glenn; by 2022 the John Glenn district was working toward a voluntary transfer agreement with South Bend; and the movement drew a legislative vehicle in House Bill 1367, a two-year pilot that would have let John Glenn initiate a "disannexation" of portions of the South Bend corporation. What the record shows actually moving is students, not lines: the corporation's minutes of October 15, 2024, count 108 transfer students from Greene Township in 2023–24 — transfers under Indiana's transfer law, not annexed territory. The movement's status in 2026 rides as GAP-WKSCH-5. One legal fact in this ground is commonly misassigned, and this section assigns it correctly: the federal desegregation consent decree in this county's school history belongs to the South Bend Community School Corporation — the Brookins case, decree approved April 17, 1981, and still in effect — not to John Glenn. The decree matters to Walkerton only as the obstacle it places across any Greene Township transfer, which is how the debate over House Bill 1367 framed it; no consent decree or desegregation order against the John Glenn School Corporation was found in the record searched, and the test is printed as run.

Sources:

1. Wikipedia, "John Glenn School Corporation," History: the Greene Township movement of 2018 and the voluntary-agreement work by 2022, from its cited reports.
2. John Glenn School Corporation board minutes (October 15, 2024): 108 transfer students from Greene Township in 2023–24.
3. City-County Observer (commentary, on House Bill 1367): the disannexation pilot described, and the South Bend decree named as the obstacle — printed as commentary for the bill, as fact for the decree's ownership.
4. Civil Rights Heritage Center, Brookins v. South Bend Community School Corporation collection (Indiana University archives): the United States' complaint of February 1980 and the consent decree approved April 17, 1981 — the decree is South Bend's.