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Voters in Kent City, Godfrey-Lee approve funding requests

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

The Kent City and Godfrey-Lee school districts won funding requests on the Tuesday, May 8 ballot by comfortable margins...

District asks millage increase for improved facilities, technology

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

If approved, the 3-mill sinking fund would generate about $300,000 annually for safety, energy, security and technology improvements...

Literary lunch gets books in families’ hands

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

The event was the first of three planned this spring for third- through fifth-graders to bring in parents to spend time together and get a new book, funded through federal Title One parent involvement funds

Students rap, rhyme their way through U.S. history, ‘Hamilton’-style

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Sophomores and juniors are learning American history and weaving it into raps, poetry and dramatic skits about events and people tied to the American Revolution

“I realize what a privilege it is”

Rockstar Teachers Erin Albanese

Rockstar Teachers Series: There's just something about certain teachers that draws students to them in droves and keeps them checking in years, even decades...

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Is this school haunted? Time to call the ghost ferreters!

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

The rewards of a summer filmmaking experience are (not grimly) being reaped by Lee students who spent a week last June creating a 10-minute short film, as part of the school’s first summer Movie Making Extravaganza class

Hispanic families struggle with uncertainty about Dreamers’ future

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Students who are Dreamers, among about 700,000 young people nationwide who arrived to the U.S. as children of undocumented parents and are enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, wonder if they will be able to go to college or secure financial aid. They feel betrayed by the system

Retiring police chief says teen sessions will continue

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

James Carmody has made it a priority to give high school students a voice at the table. Every week he meets with students, rotating between Wyoming, Godwin Heights, Lee and Kelloggsville high schools

Students Hold Their Own Olympics, STEM-Style

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

If you were a child, wouldn’t it be fun to make your own Olympic athletes out of stick-on pipe-cleaner thingies? Yes it would -- just ask these Godfrey-Lee fourth-graders

District Seeking New Tax for Facilities, Technology

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Community information meetings on the Godfrey-Lee sinking fund proposal are scheduled at 6:30 p.m. March 20 in the media center at Lee Middle/High School...

Teachers Tell Their Stories, to Help Other Teachers

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

"What inspires you to come to school every day and teach children?" interviewer Rosie del Valle asked Gladiola Elementary intervention math coach Kristi Baumbach. Baumbach,...

Students Bring Concerns from Classroom to Council

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

East Lee High School students recently served as a voice for the millions of victims of human trafficking worldwide, including thousands in West Michigan,...

When Learners Become the Teachers

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

To explain how he learns best, Lee High School sophomore Elijah Kibbe described studying all the ingredients for ice cream treats before he started...

‘We’re Living His Dream’

Godfrey-Lee Jaye Beeler

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the...

Grant Project Aims to Boost Third-grade Reading

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

In an effort to improve third-grade reading proficiency, the district will receive $20,000 to implement instructional practices recommended by Reading Now Network over the...

Don’t Just Tweak the Telegraph

Godfrey-Lee School News Network

Commentary by Kevin Polston, Superintendent, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools One of the universal shared American experiences is our public education system. Our country takes pride in...

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