- Sponsorship -
HomeGrand Rapids

Grand Rapids

A like-new school – and a cooler one – for Buchanan students and staff

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Nearly $14 million in renovations and additions increase capacity, update technology and add air-conditioned comfort for students and staff at Buchanan Elementary School...

Leaders begin transition of center programs from GRPS to Kent ISD

Empowering Abilities Charles Honey
The Grand Rapids school board voted to discontinue operating special education center programs on behalf of all 20 Kent ISD school districts, effectively turning them over to the intermediate district as of July 2019...

GRPS considers transfer of center-based Special Education programs to Kent ISD

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The Grand Rapids school board plans to vote Aug. 6 whether to transfer operation of center-based special education programs serving Kent County students to Kent ISD...

New classrooms, upgraded facilities a ‘huge blessing’ at Buchanan School

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
When classes begin at Buchanan Elementary School this August, students and teachers will walk into 16 new classrooms, new art and music rooms and cafeteria, and a spacious new gym...

Class of 2000 kindergartners come back to Fountain School: ‘We were a family’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Alumni of the 1987 Fountain School kindergarten – the Class of 2000 – got together at their old school for a mini-reunion full of memories and laughter...

After learning first lessons at Fountain, she works on behalf of all students

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Even as she graduated from City High School in June of 2000, brimming with optimism about her future, Anne Bowles expressed concern about declining standards and support for public education...

‘This opportunity is priceless’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Students are getting a head start this summer by earning college credits. If they complete the courses with Cs or higher, they will automatically be accepted at Ferris and receive a $1,000 scholarship...

GRPS, GRCC to make paths to college easier

Grand Rapids School News Network
Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal of Grand Rapids Public Schools and the president of Grand Rapids Community College, Bill Pink, joined forces this week to expand opportunities for GRPS students...

Running the good race, from refugee camp to top student-athlete

Grads with Grit Charles Honey
Jama Jafari Jama has been through rough times, but he says nothing will stop him in the long journey now before him, starting with a scholarship at Aquinas College...

MySchool@Kent students overcome obstacles to get to graduation

Grads with Grit Janice Holst
Students choose online high school for a variety of reasons. Here, a few of this year’s graduates reflect...

Students create eco-art for ArtPrize with Consumers Energy

Grand Rapids School News Network
The top 10 finalists in the sixth annual SmartArt competition are now on display at the ArtPrize HUB, 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE. The 10 were selected from nearly 50 entries created by Grand Rapids Public high school student artists...

Community mentors help eighth-graders cope with stress, handle classes and think about college

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Encouraging students to think ahead, while also supporting them in their day-to-day struggles, is at the root of the mentoring program Westwood Middle School launched this school year...

For Gerald R. Ford student essay winners, courage begins at home

Multi Districts Hannah Lentz
More than 900 students submitted writings on the theme of courage for the annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge...

Students show speaking skills at state forensics finals

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
These City High School students competed in the state forensics competition at Oakland Community College, winning two individual trophies and finishing seventh overall in their category...

Museum high school taking shape in historic building

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Construction is due to be completed by Aug. 1 on the high school, which will turn the historic building on Jefferson into a state-of-the-art school for students learning from their surroundings and applying knowledge to solutions...

Young adult students put best feet forward to help disease research

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Students in two Community Transition Campus classes recently raised $440 for disease research in the fourth annual Consumers Credit Union Purple Community 5K run/walk...
1...222324...35Page 23 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