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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...

Through music and movement, students with disabilities learn life skills

All Districts School News Network
At Lincoln School, students with autism, multiple impairments and cognitive disorders learn through movement, music and story thanks to a partnership with Grand Rapids Ballet...

Students’ film traces history, influence of Grand Rapids’ African-American music scene

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
A student-produced film on the history of black musicians in Grand Rapids will be shown Thursday, May 10 at Celebration Cinema North, as well as on Xfinity On Demand cable TV beginning the same day...

Let’s review center-based special education programs, say superintendents

Empowering Abilities Charles Honey
A study will bring in an outside consultant to evaluate whether GRPS center-based programs are providing best practices compared with other districts in Michigan and beyond...

Students learn history, see possibilities on tour of historically black colleges

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The tour of HBCUs in Tennessee, Alabama and Florida was a key component of a plan to revive Ottawa with a revamped program and $17 million in renovations...

Statewide reading decline: how some high-poverty schools buck the trend

All Districts Erin Albanese
Principals in Wyoming and Grand Rapids identified how to use data to improve instruction, build teacher leaders and zero in on reading instruction practices

Students march for their lives: ‘If others aren’t going to do it, I think we should’

All Districts Erin Albanese
Six teenage organizers from Forest Hills and Grand Rapids led a crowd of thousands in the March for Our Lives at Rosa Parks Circle

GRPS superintendent continues Transformation Plan listening tour

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal will meet with parents, students, community members and school staff this week to get feedback on the GRPS Transformation Plan

‘They’re right. We are just a bunch of kids. But we’ve also been the victims… And that’s not OK’

All Districts Charles Honey
Students at City High/Middle School joined others demonstrating across America Wednesday, a month after the massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida
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