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Helping Hispanic Students Get to and Through College

Grand Rapids Linda Odette
Getting Hispanic students to pursue a college education is the main goal of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (UHSLI), an organization that brought...

Museum Students Help Envision ‘a City for Humans’

Grand Rapids Jaye Beeler
On the Bridge Street Bridge -- with traffic roaring by and glass giants towering nearby - Grand Rapids Public Museum School students Sophia Almonte...

Courageous Student Wins Prestigious Honor

Grand Rapids Jaye Beeler
Although she thought winning the State of Michigan Breaking Traditions 2017 Excellence Award might be the pinnacle of recognition last spring, earning the YWCA...

‘Reading with a Purpose’ Helps Students Learn

The Road to Reading Charles Honey
Rebecca Ophoff’s 25 fourth-graders are following along an article at their desks as she asks them what kind of writing it is. “What makes it...

A Promise Made, a Promise Kept

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher
For more than 150 years, they've been turning out heroic figures at the former Grand Rapids Central High School – now Innovation Central High. But...

Two New Leaders for City Schools

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Snowboarder, Mushroom Harvester, Stevie Wonder Fan Meet Your Principal: Ryan Huppert School: City High/Middle and the Center for Economicology Other positions you have held in education: Sparta...

Superintendents Support Students In the Face of DACA Decision

Godfrey-Lee Charles Honey
As a mother and grandmother, Teresa Weatherall Neal knows well the value of family. And as superintendent of nearly 17,000 Grand Rapids Public Schools...

National Spotlight Shines on Museum School

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Museum School has made a big splash in West Michigan since its beginning three years ago along the banks of the Grand River. Tonight...

Teachers Train Together to Help Close the Gap

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
A fence illustration is often used to show the difference between equality and equity. Two pictures each show three children, one tall, one short and...

Warmth from the Mitten Funds Uniforms for Students

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Harrison Park students who needed new uniforms came to school this week and found they’d already been provided. The Mitten Foundation donated $3,000 to purchase...

A New Day for the Montessori Way

Grand Rapids Jaye Beeler
One. Two. Three. The snip of many scissors launched Ridgemoor Park Montessori into the open arms of a community of believers. The ceremonial ribbon-cutting at...

The Last Class Comes Back Home

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Walking through a first-floor, artfully decorated condominium, Steven Mazurek pointed toward the floor and said, “I sat right here. It was seventh grade. This...

Teachers Stock Up on Class Supplies, with Help

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Wyoming's Parkview Elementary School teachers demonstrated their love for new school supplies at the Teacher Resource Store, where they left with cartloads of notebooks,...

Students Produce PSA to Help Grow Green GR

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss wants to increase the city’s tree canopy, and Grand Rapids Public Schools students are helping her do it using...

Planting Their Little Patch of Green

Grand Rapids Dianne Carroll Burdick
The grounds around Mulick Park Elementary School have serious erosion issues, to the point of their storm drains being clogged with sediment. That problem...

‘It motivates me to do better in school’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Francisco McKnight just finished his freshman year at Union High School, but he’s already thinking ahead to college. That’s due in large part to...
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