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Creator and innovator

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
For this Rockford senior, his decision to pursue engineering started with a bag of Legos...

Welding sparks her life

Kent ISD Jane Lally
Junior Grace Kober wants to follow in her family’s footsteps and pursue work in the trades...

Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Transition Center to merge

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
The Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Transition Center merger, planned for the 2023-24 school year, is aimed at giving students more opportunities for career exploration...

Hands-on learning means expanded skills

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
The pilot course in a planned merger of KTC and Tech Center programs shows signs of broadening skills-based learning to a wider student population...

AP for all sophomores? This school is doing it

Northview Morgan Jarema
The College Board was in town last week to see Northview High’s program in action, and to encourage other districts to try...

The goal: to help people

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
This Kent Career Tech Center student has her eye on the medical field...

Building community, one gumdrop at a time

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Students and their families in the Kent ISD Oral Deaf program build candy houses and community at a holiday event...

Catching students up from pandemic’s ‘unfinished learning’

Kent ISD Charles Honey
Nearly three years since the pandemic hit, teachers and administrators are pushing hard to catch students up...

Engineering internship helps Tech Center student explore career

Caledonia Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Isaac Clark never knew how complicated making a box could be until he landed an internship at Michigan Lasercut...

Elevating student voice

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Inaugural Kent ISD event featuring students as guest speakers on important issues...

‘We’ve got to elevate the profession’

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Dave Rodgers’ excitement about his new position at Kent ISD is tied to a concern for those who teach...

Once short on credits to graduate, now an advocate for student success

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Longtime student supporter Ron Gorman now champions all students as Kent ISD’s new assistant superintendent of instructional services...

Students safely experience distracted, impaired driving

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
High-schoolers learned about the perils of driving impaired or distracted via an international program...

Training the protectors

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
District security officers came together for training, collaboration...

Familiar faces named to assistant superintendent positions

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Four Kent ISD leading administrators have taken over new assistant superintendent roles...

Districts add staff, increase compensation thanks to ‘historic’ funding increase

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Raises, programs, added staff are planned due to increased education dollars...
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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.

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