- Sponsorship -
HomeGrand Rapids

Grand Rapids

Superintendent candidates announced

Grand Rapids School News Network
The School Board of Grand Rapids Public Schools announced Tuesday a slate of five potential candidates to replace retiring Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal. Narrowed from a field of 30 applicants, the educators will participate in initial interviews on March 16...
00:03:40

Students speak their truth in poetry about where they live

Grand Rapids Brett Atwood
Students at Ottawa Hills High School learn how historic housing patterns impact their lives, in a spoken-word workshop conducted by The Diatribe and the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan...

Painting, podcasting or rocking out, students find joy in self-expression

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
In weekly sessions, North Park seventh- and eighth-graders can try their hand at a smorgasbord of creative activities, many initiated by them...

Students see new horizons, thanks to free glasses

Grand Rapids Cris Greer
In collaboration with Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Kent County Health Department, nonprofit organization Vision To Learn launched a program to provide free eye exams and glasses to students at Aberdeen K-8 School. Plans are to roll it out to all 50 GRPS schools...

Students move to new building while asbestos investigation begins

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Students and teachers of North Park Montessori School are preparing to move into a new building Wednesday, while local and state officials launch an investigation into how and why an asbestos breach occurred at their school at 3375 Cheney Ave. NE...

GRPS specialty schools offer lots of choices, but time to apply is now

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Applications are due this week for students seeking to enroll next fall in one of nearly two dozen specialty programs of Grand Rapids Public Schools...

A powerful message for adolescent girls: ‘Love yourself every day’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Girls from Grand Rapids, Kentwood and Wyoming Public Schools spent a day focused on self-esteem, health and wellness and just being themselves...

GRPS will conduct nationwide search for next superintendent

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The Grand Rapids Board of Education is embarking on a national search for a new superintendent to succeed Teresa Weatherall Neal, who retires effective July 1. The board voted Monday, Jan. 14 to conduct the search nationwide...

A more promising future begins for grads of city schools

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Promise Zone designation is expected to boost the future of both the students and the city of Grand Rapids – and put the dream of college within reach...

GRPS board plans next steps for superintendent search

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The board is aiming to make a decision by April for a successor to Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal, who will retire at the end of June after more than seven years of leading GRPS...

Partnership gets $300,000 grant to fund outdoor environmental classes

Grand Rapids James Harger
The Wege Foundation announced a $300,000 grant to help fund a partnership of area environmental groups and educators...

New foundation director sees ‘so much possibility’ for GRPS

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
As head of a nonprofit that invested more than $1.9 million in GRPS in the 2017-18 school year, Sally Andreatta aims to do even more to support the schools, with a new strategic plan, greater fundraising and more ambitious programming...

Academy aims to groom future teachers for GRPS

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
A partnership between Grand Rapids Public Schools and Ferris State University, the Academy of Teaching and Learning aims to motivate students to go into teaching...

Ryan Colburn, MacGyver of the vet world

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher
Ryan Colburn is the only full-time veterinarian at the John Ball Zoo, and the man behind the scenes who makes sure that some 1,500 animals are physically fit for your viewing pleasure...

Entrepreneurial student wins $5,000 to expand his lawn-care business

Grand Rapids James Harger
Calvin Pimpleton, an entrepreneurial junior at Innovation Central High School’s Academy of Business, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship (ABLE) program, recently won $5,000 at Start Garden’s 5x5 competition for business startups...

Town halls give residents chance to weigh in on next superintendent

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Residents will have four opportunities next week to have input on the next superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools. Town hall meetings are being...
1...202122...35Page 21 of 35

GRAND RAPIDS STUDENT SHOWCASE

- Sponsorship -

GET OUR HEADLINES IN YOUR EMAIL

SUSTAINING SPONSORS

Dean Transportation SET SEG Kent County Health Department West Michigan Health Insurance Pool Kent District Library
Join these sponsors
- Sponsorship -

MEDIA PARTNERS

Maranda Where You Live WGVU

ABOUT US

School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent ISD, which enroll more than 102,000 students. Founded in 2013 as an initiative of Kent ISD, we are supported by local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and multimedia journalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues facing students and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

Contact us: snn@kentisd.org

FOLLOW US

OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Byron Center   Caledonia    Cedar Springs    Comstock Park    East Grand Rapids    Forest Hills    Godfrey-Lee    Godwin Heights    Grand Rapids    Grandville    Kelloggsville    Kenowa Hills    Kent City    Kent ISD    Kentwood    Lowell    Northview    Rockford   
Sparta    Thornapple Kellogg    Wyoming

© Kent ISD | 2930 Knapp NE | Grand Rapids MI 49525

Privacy Policy