Hamilton Elementary second-grader Orlando Perez stares intently at his Chromebook screen as teacher Krystal Sorensen provides instructions for his next class, physical education. Orlando is in his aunt Mellody Grant’s Lake Station kitchen along with her two older children, Evan and Brayden Grant. The teens attend Edison Middle/High school. While other Indiana students are in classrooms each day, about 1,140 Lake Station students spend Tuesdays and Thursdays at home in front of laptops because Lake Station can’t afford to bus them to school five days a week. Voters can send the students back if they support the district’s bid for the renewal of an eight-year $1.38 million annual operating referendum.
Lake Station school referendum looms large for voters with busing on the line
