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Six school districts seek tax approvals on Nov. 6 ballot

Multi Districts James Harger

Voters in six Kent County school districts will be asked to vote on school tax proposals that can be found on the second page of their ballot Nov. 6...

Grant will help prepare Wyoming area students for college

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Grand Rapids Community College is the recipient of a $2.1 million, six-year grant from the U.S. Education Department to boost chances for all students to succeed in college and beyond...

New building, no new taxes, say district officials

Kelloggsville Bridie Bereza

The issue will appear at the bottom of the ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and is part of a long-term plan to update and modernize the district’s elementary schools...

Community Celebration draws a big crowd

Kelloggsville Bridie Bereza

The district hosted its annual Community Celebration on Sept. 14 in front of the middle school. Students, their families and members of the community came out to enjoy games, bouncy castles and treats, and to hear music...

Stress test: students speak their minds on the M-STEP

Multi Districts Charles Honey

Rather than go back to the same hand-wringing sources about M-STEP scores, we decided to ask the people most directly affected by these tests: the students who take them...

Of travel, teaching, and Timberlake

Kelloggsville Bridie Bereza

Beth Travis is the new principal at East Kelloggsville Elementary School. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

Mr. Rocket’s legacy trails for four decades

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Retiring Athletic Director Bruce Foster leaves a legacy of impacting students’ lives through sports, and doing what he can to provide an excellent program for student athletes...

‘He tells me to never give up’

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Susan Faulk’s English Language Arts for ELL students are benefiting from one-on-one time with tutors who sit down to listen to them read books, or from a computer reading program...

Drama’s back, and students are ready to act

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

After five years without a program and, now, with a renovated auditorium, a stockpile of props pulled from storage and two enthusiastic new hires, Kelloggsville High School theater has been resurrected...

Fine dining, served up student-style

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Third-grade students, proclaiming “Let’s Eat!” in Italian, welcomed guests to their student-led dinner, getting a taste of running a restaurant...

Practicing leadership on the playground

Student Leaders Erin Albanese

Sixth-through-eighth graders are using the skills they learn in the semester-long leadership class and paying them forward helping out at the elementary school to reinforce good behavior...

New approach lifts struggling students’ math scores

Making Math Add Up Erin Albanese

Thanks to streamlined coaching, students are filling in gaps in their basic skills so they can move forward in math

Olympic-style reading events push students to go for the gold

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Forget a pentathlon or decathlon; Southeast Kelloggsville Elementary School students completed up to 20 events for the “Read for the Gold!” March is Reading...

Deeply rooted in community, retiree helps plant trees and love of reading

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Retired Forest Hills media specialist Jim Ward works to support reading and good schools in his community of Kelloggsville

Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute

All Districts Erin Albanese

Mastermind is a group of West Michigan teachers, principals, social workers and other educators who have met monthly at Van Andel Education Institute this school year, working together to overcome challenges common to many of them

Hispanic families struggle with uncertainty about Dreamers’ future

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Students who are Dreamers, among about 700,000 young people nationwide who arrived to the U.S. as children of undocumented parents and are enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, wonder if they will be able to go to college or secure financial aid. They feel betrayed by the system

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