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Inadequate funding – even in affluent districts – still short-changes students

Issues in Education Charles Honey

It’s not just poorer districts feeling the pain from Michigan’s inadequate school funding, officials say. Higher-income districts are also pinched by the funding formula and having to make cuts...

Increased costs, slow funding increases create tight budget

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

While Forest Hills is considered one of the most affluent school districts in West Michigan, it still feels the budget pinch of a lower per-pupil allowance than the district received a decade ago...

Lightbulb lunches garner student voice

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Every month, teachers recommend a different group of students from each grade for lunch with the principal. Students offer suggestions and ideas about their school...

Nick Minnema – special and driven, for all the right reasons

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

The Forest Hills Transition Center student and athlete competed this month at the Special Olympics World Games half a world away – in the United Arab Emirates’ capital city of Abu Dhabi, as well as the UAE’s largest city, Dubai...

Their writing is tops with readers, judges

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A pair of students from two West Michigan public schools took high honors in the seventh annual Write Michigan short story contest, hosted by Kent District Library and Schuler Books & Music...

Why did the pencil cross the road? Wait for it …

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The pint-sized comedians got tips from comedian Allen Trieu, then tried out their own funny bone-tickling skills on one another...

Urban & suburban students find common interests in 15-year partnership

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The recent meet-and-greet was the 15th annual gathering of students from the two elementary schools...

Providing ‘safe spaces’ for students of every kind to learn

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Collins Elementary Principal Mitchell Balingit has been named the district’s first director of student success and equity...

Homemade toys sale benefits endangered animals

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As an added, cross-curricular twist, each toy was given a materials budget of 10 virtual dollars, and art supplies and equipment could be purchased or rented...

Reading is elementary for these word detectives

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For the first full school year, students across the district are using the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, a curriculum developed by author and educator Lucy Calkins...

Students drink deeply of cultures while making cups with masks

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Math, history and art come together in creative ways as sixth-graders make drinking vessels inspired by cultural masks...

In mixed millage results, approvals for five districts but setback for one

Multi Districts School News Network

While five local school districts won tax request approvals from voters, a defeat in Caledonia will cost the district more than $150,000 in revenue...

Six school districts seek tax approvals on Nov. 6 ballot

Multi Districts James Harger

Voters in six Kent County school districts will be asked to vote on school tax proposals that can be found on the second page of their ballot Nov. 6...

Building a groundswell of support for fresh water

Forest Hills Hannah Lentz

They started the year as penpals. Now they have met and are working together to explore local water systems...

Brain-teasers for bears? Spider monkey back-scratchers? High-schoolers can devise those

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Biology teachers at Central and Eastern high schools involved some 400 students -- mostly freshmen biology and senior AP biology -- in designing new animal exhibits at John Ball Zoo and enhancements for existing ones...

‘Walk slow, move things around, be patient’

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The goal is that students gain an appreciation for the natural world, and to understand ecosystems having seen them with their own eyes, right outside school..

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