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New academy preps students for hospitality, tourism careers

Career Exploration Phil de Haan

A new academy at Ottawa Hills High School aims to prepare students for good careers in hospitality and tourism...

Learning from a distance: ‘Keep them happy and keep them learning’

School 2.0 Charles Honey

In this moment of social distancing, it’s an alternative way to get at the school’s aim of helping all students learn, yet in drastically different and varied circumstances...

School meal distributions to continue under stay-at-home order

School 2.0 Charles Honey

Schools are permitted to continue providing pick-up meals for students under Gov. Whitmer’s stay-at-home order...

Rallying to feed families

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

While alarming news regarding the novel coronavirus continues to unfold nationwide, Kent County teachers, administrators, food service workers and community volunteers are coming together to make sure students and families continue to have plenty of food while their schools are closed...

What does the 2020 Census have to do with school lunch?

Multi Districts Phil de Haan

With some funding dependent on census data, school districts help spread the word on this key count of residents...

GRPS Graduation Rates Up 71 Percent Since 2012

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

For the eighth consecutive year, GRPS saw improvement in district-wide graduation rates...

An African experience comes together in song, dance and word

Grand Rapids Dianne Carroll Burdick

The Grand Rapids Public Schools Department of Equity and Inclusion partnered with Motherland Cultural Connections to bring the Banin Experience to GRPS staff...

GRPS board selects Minnesota district administrator as next superintendent

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

The Grand Rapids Board of Education voted to hire Leadriane Roby as its next superintendent to lead the district into the future...

For hard-working student, Promise Zone scholarship ‘such a big relief’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Karla Lopez looks forward to graduating soon from Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy and attending GRCC at no cost...

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Online story time, virtual PE keep students connected during shutdown

School 2.0 Charles Honey

'They need to see we’re smiling and happy and that we’re OK, and that they’re going to be OK too'...

WMCAT students earn high honors in art competition

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Twenty-one GRPS students won 80 awards for photography and ceramics in the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional competition...

Stepping up and giving back

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

For Luis Perez, being a mentor at Southwest Community Campus brings back a lot of great memories...

GRPS board narrows list of superintendent candidates to three

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

The Grand Rapids Board of Education will meet Feb. 17 to interview three candidates as the next possible GRPS superintendent, after narrowing the field from five Monday night...

School board to interview five superintendent candidates

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

The Board of Education has chosen five candidates to interview in its search for the next superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools...

‘It only takes one’

Grand Rapids James Harger

Bernice Wisnieski, a second grade teacher at Sibley Elementary School, and her sister, Mary Musto, a teaching consultant at Kent ISD, have teamed up to publish “It Only Takes One Caring Heart,” a children’s book that teaches inclusiveness in the classroom...

‘It might spark a desire to want to change something’

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

The Lunch & Learn series aims to bring in people representing different careers and backgrounds to speak on various topics...

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